[sdiy] Magic Smoke!

[René Schmitz]

Harry Bissell Jr wrote:
> First guess... power supply backwards
> 
> Second guess... electrolytics backwards

Or some IC backwards...

> Ceramic are non-polar and should not affect
> anything

Unless they're the ones rated at 16V (!) that
I had here (I think they are from the former GDR).
You pushed them too hard, and they started to
incinerate. Worse yet, short.

Cheers,
  René

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