types of damages to PIC

[Someone Electro]

Yep must of ben the adaptor

 

[Jay.slovak]

ok, here's how i accidentally fried the PIC, I got so sleepy and lazy one night and after programming the PIC, I didn't bother to place a 5 volt regulator (7805) upon testing my circuit, I thought that my adjustable adapter could give me exactly 5 volts because it was set at 5 volts, but after frying my PIC, I measured the adaptor output voltage using a multimeter and it turned out to be 11 volts :shock:
I hope you'll not be making this same mistake in the future

Ohh never rely on "Chinese" or Yellow adapters... Usually they output 2 times do voltage they are set on before the load is applied...

 

[gastonanthony]

why call it a yellow adapter?

 

[Jay.slovak]

why call it a yellow adapter?

Well no offense to Asian people but the crappy adapters are made in such yellow countries....

 

[gastonanthony]

oh, ok, I agree with the poor quality of these adapters, and learned it the hard way

 

[Someone Electro]

We lean a lot of stuf the hard hay.


Like i lernd not to mess whith HV caps the hard way