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Anyhow so much for my plan getting voltage readings and stuff.  Because the boards face inward and the only way I can get access to the top of a board is by unplugging everything

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Besides why do that when you can do bonehead stuff like remove components for no reason except that somewhere sometime some guy amongst the entire world 🌎 had that part go bad

Oh well I need some practice anyway.

So I removed Q24

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To be fair i did diode and resistance checks but yeah I guess in circuit they could mean anything.

So while all the cool people in town are partying and getting lit and spending hundreds of dollars on fireworks 🎆 🎇 guess what my excitement is:

Testing this PNP device on my peak atlas.

Oh wait I have a multimeter I'll do that first

 xP

Oh well I guess I've had my fun for the night

:lmao:

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 xP

Well little did I know the fun actually was NOT 🚫🚭 over

I had pulled C23 as well and checked it ✅✔️

No smoking gun so I put everything back together

Or so I thought
:grr

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I plugged it back in turned it on and to my horror the relays were clicking so bad it sounded like a bowl of rice crispies (or Orville Reddenbocker)

So I thought I had plugged something in wrong or left something unplugged but it looked ok
Then I started wondering if I soldered the transistors in backwards.

Well here is a pic with C24 removed

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I had written down on my notes C24 at the top so when I glanced to look for the markings I thought top to bottom = left to right.

Oh well

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Time to do it again....more practice  :trouble

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Now it's back to where it is working like before .

 xP

At least you didn't make any fireworks out of that PCB.
I read somewhere that people think fireworks should be  banned because they could be dangerous, I guess that just leaves us firing guns in the air instead.
Now where can I get an AK47 from cheap......