damaged sidecar

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo

EEs use the term "walking wounded" to describe circuits that have a much higher probability for failure than nominal. Eric really knows these sidecars well, and I'd defer to his expertise on this one.

Of course, if you don't HAVE another one, you use what you have!

Thanks for the feedback!. Agreed, if we had a new sidecar - toss this one. But in theory that transistor was supposed to protect the rest of the circuit. I am an EE also, it seems a $2 transistor and 10 minutes to replace is worth a try. Thus back to the original query - anyone ever had this transistor blow, replaced it and got the sidecar working again?