Matrix Orbital Corp

Do not reverse the plug when you hook up stuff to your GPO. If you do and the power is on you will encounter some pretty blue nice smelling smoke. Yes. This is from personal experience.

Curious. What were you hooking up? I assume that whatever it was, it supplied power in some way, or had a protection diode? Just wondering, since what you said should not always be true. Also, where did the smoke come from? Does it still work? Did you take a picture of the mushroom cloud?

A couple of 335s wen't up in smoke...

pics!

Seriously, what did you let the magic smoke out of, and how?

well, the smoke came out of the little chips right next to the gpo's. There are little holes on top of them now. It still works, so do the gpos, just dont know how since I fried two chips. Oh, i was hookin up a fan.

Ya, OK, that makes sense. That -PC unit is the only one with that sort of situation. You basically hooked 12 volts up to a point whose job it is to provide a low resistance path to ground. Boom. The 335s are hard to find, but any generic N-channel MOSFET will work in there with more or (probably) less current carrying capability.

Do those blown up outputs still work as well? If they do, you better not use them, since they will be shorted directly to the processor.

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Heh, I dont plan on using them. And for you junkies here is a horrible pic, but my camera cant focus. BITE ME IN ADVANCE HENRY for your focus joke. =)

that pic sucked, scroll down

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if you look really closely, you can see little holes on the first two 335's from the bottom.

and note the brownish tint on the second from the bottom

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