Questions tagged [overheat]
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Heating issues with solar charging circuit
I am using the above circuit to charge a 7.4V Li-ion Battery.With input MPPT voltage set at 12V, I have applied 13V input voltage to the circuit. The battery is charging at 1.4A. (according to the ...
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Why do heaters vary widely in resistance even though they have similar power requirements?
I have a soldering station equipped with a 24V/60W soldering iron. Its heating element (pins 1-2) resistance measures around 50 ohms. The resistance of the thermocouple (pins 4-5) measures around 2 ...
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Microcontroller overheating when sensor is plugged in [closed]
I am building a board based around an STM32L051C6 microcontroller, which will measure a hall effect sensor (AH3362Q) and count the time in between the edges the sensor sees. The sensor is powered from ...
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Lithium ion battery charging problem [closed]
I am making a rechargeable led light
My power source is mobile litium ion battery, (3.7)v 1800mah
Whenever is use to chrge this battery with the mobile charger 5v...
The diode in4007 connected to the ...
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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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