Twenty quids worth of point indicator controller when you connect it to the 19v supply insted of the reccommended 15v one. !
Ah! The magic blue smoke :doh:
I hope you don't need a second try at connecting a controller.
Cheers John.
Ooops :'(
The old advice to steam loco modellers to 'let the smoke out' of their locomotives, has just taken-on a whole new meaning....
(My commiserations BTW. Expensive.:(
Sounds like when I connected a Bluetooth module I'd waited 3 weeks for (China purchase) to the 12V line instead of the 3.3V line - I wondered what the whisp was above it and then :smackedface: Nice little hole burned through the insulation, and another 3-week wait for the replacement :censored:
That sounds like a smoking unit to me!
In some kind of sadistic way, I'm glad I'm not the only one to have done this :-[
Quote from: Graham Walters on October 21, 2015, 09:54:47 AM
In some kind of sadistic way, I'm glad I'm not the only one to have done this :-[
LOL, all of us who play with this stuff do it ...
My excuse is at the time I only had red & black wiring, & got hold of the wrong red ... :censored:
Tune for maximum smoke.
Quote from: Only Me on October 21, 2015, 09:59:45 AM
Graham if its from block signalling then i would presume you have just fried the voltage protection component ie the VR which is easily replaced
I wish it was, but I know enough to know that it was the processor that fried, I'm almost certain I saw the code evaporating with the smoke it gave off. :'(
Quote from: Graham Walters on October 21, 2015, 06:57:56 PM
Quote from: Only Me on October 21, 2015, 09:59:45 AM
Graham if its from block signalling then i would presume you have just fried the voltage protection component ie the VR which is easily replaced
I wish it was, but I know enough to know that it was the processor that fried, I'm almost certain I saw the code evaporating with the smoke it gave off. :'(
Did it have VW in the code ;D?