Attention Old Coot Gotham Needs Your Help

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Originally Posted by jr_tech

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.

jr

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.