Today I literally boiled the insulation off magnet wire, blew up some MOSFET's in a half-bridge DIY switching amplifier of my own poor design (boo - expensive FET's), burned my thumb on a 25W wirewound resistor that just happened to be dissipating over 100W due to a circuit failure, killed a half bridge FET driver (only one! yay at $4ea), and destroyed a transformer (the one with the toasted magnet wire).
But progress was made. Oh yes, progress was made.
Anyone else have some fun lately? On the plus side, my scope, multimeter, power supplies save the transformer, and soldering station all survived. Less than $100 destroyed in components and transformer and no injuries other than a burned thumb.
But progress was made. Oh yes, progress was made.
Anyone else have some fun lately? On the plus side, my scope, multimeter, power supplies save the transformer, and soldering station all survived. Less than $100 destroyed in components and transformer and no injuries other than a burned thumb.
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