Ziddik's recent tale about blowing up a resistor with high voltage started me thinking in general about how we occasionally blow up electronic components (I'm thinking unintentionally here).
Anyone blown any transistors recently? I did, a little NPN TO-92 jobbie (2N3904/2222/some such). I was actually kind of surprised at how violently it blew. One of the internal leads actually popped out of the top of the case, and it made a pretty loud bang.
I was pretty sad; after all, it had cost me a whole $0.07 ...
Anyone blown any transistors recently? I did, a little NPN TO-92 jobbie (2N3904/2222/some such). I was actually kind of surprised at how violently it blew. One of the internal leads actually popped out of the top of the case, and it made a pretty loud bang.
I was pretty sad; after all, it had cost me a whole $0.07 ...
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