Thread: Flawed IR Design Confirmed
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Re: Flawed IR Design Confirmed
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Originally Posted by keen101 View Post
OK, after frying the 5V regulator on our IR board twice, I think I can safely say that the IR board has a flawed design. Although, I know how I fried it the second time. It was because I accidentally reversed the polarity of the input voltage.
So you connect the board with the polarity wrong and they have a flawed design? I'd say it was pilot error.

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If FIRST decides to use such boards in the future, I would REALLY recommend that they design it with a diode. That way the diode would restrict the voltage to only go one way.
Diodes restrict current flow to one direction, not voltage.