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Old 05-27-2014, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jr_tech View Post
That whisker must have been drawing quite a bit of current to load down the B+ that much, I'm surprised that there there was no smoke or fireworks to reveal the location of the short.

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It was actually a "splatter" of solder that was the culprit. I didn't leave the set powered on for more than 10 seconds or so while I was experiencing the problem so it wouldn't have had enough time to heat up to smoke stage.
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