Questions tagged [overheat]
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THAT4315 audio analyzer - capacitors getting hot
I have designed a audio spectrum analyzer circuit with THAT4315 and a drivers for IN-13 bar graph nixie tube to visualize the signal level.
To supply +-12V to the opamps, the Meanwell NSD15 module is ...
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Class-AB Amplifier Excessive Heat
I'm using a TI TPA6017A2 as a pre-amp for an in-car audio application and it's getting excessively hot, to the point where the IC burns my finger when touched if I set the input volume to max. Beyond ...
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LED light cycles on and off - Is it a heat or voltage problem?
I have this LED light that was over the aquarium at my work desk. There's a circuit board (not pictured) that controls when the lights go on and off but, after a power outage a few weeks ago, it seems ...
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MAX487CPA/SN75176BP RS485 IC gets too warm (in DMX Splitter circuit)
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I built part of the scheme below (input K2/IC5, optocoupler IC9 and output IC6/K3). IC9 is overheating when I connect LED pars to K3, because voltage is flowing back into pin 6/7. If I connect ...
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What can happen with the PCB foil while SMD resistor destructive overheat?
I need to protect the gate driving circuit by putting the resistor between the gate and the control circuit:
During the testing of the mockup MOSFETs can go be destroyed which leaded to high voltage ...
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Overheating of LM1117 SOT223, 5v-3.3v
I'm having problems with my design. I put the schematic here, maybe someone can find an error that I didn't find yet.
EDITED[I forgot the schematic, sorry...]
The microcontroller, dsPIC, has the ...
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Why are DIMMs not equipped with a heat sink like a CPU?
I know that a DIMM is composed of a set of chips that contain control logic managing the decode and prefetching memory operations. According to a product specification, I found that newer RAM works at ...
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DIY Induction Heater failure - MOSFET overheat
I saw this video about DIY Induction Heater and I decided to make it by myself in order to learn something from this project.
After finish wiring everything, I connect the power supply and heard/saw ...
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LM2586 - Inductor Heats Then Burns
I'm designing a step-up constant current source to drive LED strips (nominal load voltage is about 54 VDC). Requirements:
Vin: 18..32 VDC
Iout = 0.2 A
Vout = 54 VDC (nominal) - 57 VDC (maximum)
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