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Trials & Tribulations of Chip Repairs & Upgrades

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An F1 DPR chip arrived on my doorstep to be fixed. It looked perfectly OK but would not run when connected to a chassis and tested on a powerbase. After a check of the components, I found that three of the four diodes were not working at all so I replaced them with 1A Schottkys .........

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All still looking OK ....... time to test my handy work .......
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Reassembled back onto the testbed, I pulled the throttle back and woomph!
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... very bright flames & tons of acrid smoke.

As you can see, the dual MOSFETs, top left, has decided to expire. It is a dual MOSFET bereft of any magical smoke, it is an ex-MOSFET.
I wonder if Farnell can help me out in the morning? ......
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I have had one chip suffer damage, which removed the solder pads. So just followed the circuit diagram and used kynar jumper wires to connect to the next component. Worked just fine!
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