Re: Amplifone HV board - Solved a really wierd problem today...

From: <MKDUD_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue Jul 13 1999 - 23:37:01 EDT

In a message dated 7/12/99 5:09:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ClayC@diamondmm.com writes:

<< I haven't had the 555 die in particular, but I did lose a *resistor* in the
 555 circuit. Tested "close enough" in circuit (doing an "A"/"B" compare
 with a good board), but after a brute-force search of components on the
 board I found the value was way off when pulled from the board. (Something
 like 3.9K but tested to ~800 ohms...)
 
 This was in a WG HV cage, but the same basic theory applies...
>>

That is pretty crazy. I hate it when an R tests in curcuit "close", but it
ends up being bad or off when pulled. This is a rare problem, too.
Received on Tue Jul 13 22:38:23 1999

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