Draco_Americanus
Enlightened
What kind of stupid things have you guys done?
I would like to start out with what happened to Me today.
I am trying to mod a Vercorlite 118 into HID useing a 21 watt hid bulb and ballast. Well the ballast is to dang big so I was trimming off the case as that was not needed. Got that done just fine so here comes the time to shave off some of the epoxy potting compund. I was not paying attention and shaved off part of the circuit board! Upon inspection nothing seemed to be electricaly damaged so I when and hooked it to a battery. DUBBLE checking the wireing. BAG puff of smoke, I hooked it up backwards /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif Even after dubble checking the /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif wireing I still hooked it backwards! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif I must be color blind sometimes, thats 80 bucks flushed /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smoker5.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif
If it was not for the epoxy potting I could still fix it! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif Anyone know of any chemicals that can eat epoxy?
I would like to start out with what happened to Me today.
I am trying to mod a Vercorlite 118 into HID useing a 21 watt hid bulb and ballast. Well the ballast is to dang big so I was trimming off the case as that was not needed. Got that done just fine so here comes the time to shave off some of the epoxy potting compund. I was not paying attention and shaved off part of the circuit board! Upon inspection nothing seemed to be electricaly damaged so I when and hooked it to a battery. DUBBLE checking the wireing. BAG puff of smoke, I hooked it up backwards /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif Even after dubble checking the /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif wireing I still hooked it backwards! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif I must be color blind sometimes, thats 80 bucks flushed /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smoker5.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif
If it was not for the epoxy potting I could still fix it! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif Anyone know of any chemicals that can eat epoxy?