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Re: COMM lost way to many times

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Originally Posted by juchong View Post
I believe the root cause was that the team had an external circuit (LEDs) connected to the VRM for some time and the constant current draw damaged the VRM electronics.
That's a reasonable supposition. The VRM's "2 amp" output is actually likely to be damaged by anything higher than a continuous 1.5 amp draw. One of the Beta Test teams did mortally wound a VRM during testing by using it as labeled rather than as documented.
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