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Fried power supply mosfet
I pulled a stupid, what watt soldering iron

New MessageFried power supply mosfet (modified 0 times) blckjck
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OK, patience is a virtue I should go get. In my rush to hack my first I-Openner, I applied 5v to the wrong pin on the IDE connecter, wich allowed a wonderful light and smoke display from one of what I beleave was a mosfet at the power supply on the main board. Unfortunately my memory is failing and I need to know what wattage soldering iron to buy for that #&@^$(@# surface mount component. Thanks, and this has been a very helpfull and idea inspiring board.
12-30-2001 17:40:39

New MessageRE:Fried power supply mosfet (modified 0 times) *SF*
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Try SEARCH of "I-Opener General Posts" using "soldering" For some Good Tips.
Practice on something JUNK, FIRST
Get the Finest Tip You Can. Don't File the Tip, they are Plated.
a Thread to get you started,
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=whatever&Post=1060&Idle=&Sort=&Order=&Page=&Session=
12-30-2001 17:53:41

New MessageRE:Fried power supply mosfet (modified 0 times) blckjck
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Thank You very much SF, I had searched on everything but the obvious "soldering", I will go to radio shack during the week, hopefully they can cross refernce the mosfet. The temp. range 700' is what I realy needed. For anyone that wants to know how I smoked it, I was useing an external power supply for my fane and 40pin IDE drive, custom 40 cable, and a 40-44ping converter for useing laptop drives in a desktop, I powered just the power supply, not the I-Opener, and since the drive didn't power up, I connected the 5volt connector for the converter instead of plugging in the IO... hence the pretty show. But for a Ver. 1 that I got for free, it's worth repairing... I love my job
12-30-2001 19:37:57

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