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 

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    Nice little hole burned through the insulation, and another 3-week wait for the replacement 

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 ... 

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 ?