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Offline Zac67

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Re: What are R177 and R176 for?
« on: August 28, 2008, 09:04:24 PM »
If the solder melts the current is way too high - there must be a short somewhere. Either the 7905 is dead or the short is in the -5V circuitry.

The two resistors in parallel limit the current to less than 7V/10Ohm=.7A. Power over the Rs would be .35A*7V=2.45W each - too little to melt the solder. The voltage regulator must be dead (increases the power to .6A*12V=7.2W each - I guess the PSU maxes at 1A).

Remove the 7905 and check whether there's a short on the -5V track before replacing it.
 

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Re: What are R177 and R176 for?
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2008, 09:32:04 PM »
:-? WTF
Check whether C199 gets hot / is short - it seems the only other way to put load on the resistors. Have never had a ceramic capacitor die on me, only electrolytic ones.