bad micro experience

[Dakta]

I've not killed a pic - though that surprises me because really it's overdue :s

I have managed to kill a potentiometer though!

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I've not killed a pic - though that surprises me because really it's overdue :s

I have managed to kill a potentiometer though!

Pot's are easy to kill

Just wire them wrongly and then turn it to near one end - poof!.

 

[Dakta]

Well I suppose my pot explosion deserves a bit more credit (credit for stupidity).

Pot's may be easy to kill in that sense, but you didn't compensate for the 'dakta factor' - i.e the pot was shorted across a metal surface. That metal surface was my computer. The supply was my computers 12v rail..

Yes, you can laugh

 

[DirtyLude]

I killed my first uC just recently. Hooked up the wrong pins to the sensor on an MSP430 and sent 12V through it. Probably would have been fine if I figured it out right away, but I let it sit for a while trying to figure out what the problem was.

 

[RMMM]

Its the smell that tells you: "You can stop troubleshooting now"

 

[mynameisdan]

You must have done something SERIOUSLY nasty to it

Are you absolutely sure you don't still have a short on the pins somewhere?.

Nah, the pin in question was the PGD which is right next to VDD.

On Vregs, it was dark and I managed to hook up my board (undioded) to a 12v Pb battery wrong way round. The reg was smoking, and on correct power up very dodgy. The PIC was fine