[Apocalypsee]

My DAC bridge rectifier blows up (or maybe LM317), I don't have time to buy the replacement. In the meantime listening to SupremeFX II, doesn't sound that bad....my ear has gone bad I guess....

 

[DKJones96]

I got a head-fi related kill last night. I was trying to get my old cMoy to sound a little better since I have more experience now and apparently the wall wart I was using wasn't isolated and tied ground to mains. I turned the power switch off that just disconnected + and left it all plugged in while I tried to desolder the output caps...

I don't think I've EVER jumped out of a chair that fast before! I hadn't tried soldering on it since I converted it to mains operation and most of my supplies are of the switching type so I have never had it a concern. The lessons we learn.

 

[DKJones96]

No pics? I'll start.

The soldering is ugly but this is my test setup for stuff so I don't bother with making it look good.

 

[sugrhigh]

What the hell happened there?

 

[DKJones96]

The brown wire there was a mains ground and when I went to solder the pads next to it for the caps it sparked, I jumped, and the iron grounded through that line without a fuse. Found out my flux is flammable too. Since it didn't ground through the whole board I was able to simply stick a new opamp in there (killed it with the first spark) and it works just fine.

 

[spencexxx]

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f6/diy...57/index2.html

I blew up a coax using my Soldering Iron of Thor.

 

[Jerrycan]

The wire of my soldering iron shorted and exploded with a big bang.
I suspect it left me with tinitus in my right ear.