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Unread 02-03-2003, 15:00
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Originally posted by Simeon
our victors haven't exploded, but one of our spikes did
something smelled funny
then after like 1/2 an hour we found that the little resistor thing on the side had totally melted...
the fuse was perfectly fine tho.
You probably reversed the polarity to the spike. I believe that the "little resistor thing" is actually a diode meant to allow the current to travel one way only. It melting would make sense if you reversed the polarity.