jacob.lamberson
19-02-2012, 15:38
I am with team 4360 (Spudnik), and we seem to be having a problem with our digital sidecar. It seems to have shorted out on the U3 (for sure) and the U7 may be damaged. The U3 has a big hole in it. It has worked before, but then we came back the next day, and :eek: it didn't work. Our plan is to replace the U3 with a new one from digikey. I found some schematics at http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/DSC%20Schematic%20v7.pdf. It is surface mounted. We are almost certain that the U3 and U7 are the same thing, but have been wired on the board to different voltage regulators so they output 5v and 6v, respectively. It doesn't currently work right now. The BAT light comes on, but the 5v and 6v lights are off. We made sure the ribbon cable has continuity on all pins. We also ran the vanilla program as well as the one we will be using (Labview). So, basically, our question is; has anyone attempted to repair a digital sidecar like this and succeded (or failed)? Any input would be great, as bag n' tag is tuesday!!!:ahh: The digikey link to the part is http://search.digikey.com/us/en/products/TPS5431DDA/296-19662-5-ND/1016495.