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Has your team's IR board quit working due to manufacturing issues? Ours has. I ordered 10 pairs of both voltage regulators and IR recievers to repair our board during competition / testing because I couldn't narrow down the failure to only a component issue. Better safe than sorry.
Has your team's IR board quit working due to manufacturing issues? Ours has, so I ordered 10 pairs of both voltage regulators and IR recievers to repair our board during competition / testing.
Where were you able to get voltage regulators and recievers?, ours has actually been fried, not due to manufacturing errors. It would be nice to fix it.
Jacob
marccenter
12-02-2008, 10:22
One board has gone bad due to unknown reasons, the second board +5V regulator was blow due to a wiring error (connected 5V to ground).
After 5V regulator replacement, the LED's were not properly operationing on the IR board.
For the remaining two boards, I have replaced the little LM78L05 100 mV regulator with a standard LM7805 (TO-220) package.
I am hoping that this might provide more robustness to operator/wiring errors.:rolleyes:
Where were you able to get voltage regulators and recievers?, ours has actually been fried, not due to manufacturing errors. It would be nice to fix it.
Digikey.com
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