Small fire in Omega Race.

Jeff F

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When you are putting your head into the back of a game looking up(at the monitor) and you feel a little heat on your chin and smell something burning...

IT'S FUN!!! :eek:

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Our Omega Race lost it's picture yesterday so I figured it was a monitor problem... I'm thinking it may not be though. :D

I love this hobby!!! :beerchug:
 
What you have witnessed is the magic smoke escaping from a chip. You see, all chips contain magic smoke, trapped in the little black plastic chip body. But - you've obviously let the smoke escape - without it, that chip won't work.

:D

-Ian
 
I have a few of these left over from the other Omega Race boards and Tempest boards and Battlezone boards I've been working on this past month or so. :)

Shocking that RS would have that though! :eek:
 
/Jeff knocks on wood before he says anything...

So, it seems I lucked out and the TL082 was just defective and had a catastrophic failure. I replaced it with a socket and new chip and the Omega Race thump, thump, thumped back to life. :)

/Jeff knocks on wood again just in case...
 
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