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Has anyone seen CR1, 2 and 3 on the Xenon vocalizer board looking like they have been to a barbeque?
Took the traces right off the board. Someone kludged in some wire - looks like crap, and they used the wrong diodes.
I should have grabbed pictures. This Xenon had more hacks in the boards than I have ever seen - even the power brick had one.
The customer had lost audio - I pulled and scrubbed all the pins on the chips, and that resolved it, although there is a fuzzy sound that kind of rumbles in the background. I figure it's my three little diodes (look like 1N314s instead of 1N4001s) bleeding AC into the line.
The diodes passed the diode test, so they aren't fried...yet.
Took the traces right off the board. Someone kludged in some wire - looks like crap, and they used the wrong diodes.
I should have grabbed pictures. This Xenon had more hacks in the boards than I have ever seen - even the power brick had one.
The customer had lost audio - I pulled and scrubbed all the pins on the chips, and that resolved it, although there is a fuzzy sound that kind of rumbles in the background. I figure it's my three little diodes (look like 1N314s instead of 1N4001s) bleeding AC into the line.
The diodes passed the diode test, so they aren't fried...yet.

