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Re: IR Receiver Availability at Events

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Originally Posted by OZ_341 View Post
We did reprogram at Chesapeake. It is my understanding that the "magic smoke" was released from the board in the middle of a match. It was working properly before that for several matches.

Does anyone know if they have replacements at each event?
I "magic smoked" one (by plugging power into the outputs w/offset connector) and a reprogram later it was fine. The regulators blow and the programs go, but the rest of the board is surprisingly resilient. No matter how many time we break em (~5 times if I had to guess) they seem to come back, so they probably can be fixed with a new regulator or reprogram. Is your regulator suppling +5v?
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