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Old 10-03-2019, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn View Post
Not necessarily, a short to ground in the choke would not cause a component down stream from it to smoke. You could have a paper power supply bypass cap that's leaky or shorted, which generally will smoke a resistor feeding voltage to that circuit. In some cases it could be a coil. Can you post a picture showing the area the smoke came from?
See Picture below for where the magic smoke came from.
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