"John Tserkezis" wrote in
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robb wrote:

Currently the only diagnostic tools at my immediate disposal
are

Fluke 177 DMM, a Tek 2236 oscope and a usb/PC based all
purpose
logic anal/spectrum anal/oscope

i am hopeing these will be sufficient to solve / track this
fault(s)
if low ohm meter is not terribly expensive then i'll try to
get
one if it helps more than my current tools

You're missing a hammer.


well i purposefully left the hammers out because i did not
realize their usefull ness in this situation.

i actually have quite array of hammers 5 oz. to 5 lb rubber,
brass, nylon etc

i just hope the time comes that i do not need to use them.... on
the man or the machine


That might be a lot funnier if we weren't talking about 32v
on a 5v line,
but at this stage, a hammer certainly seems a viable tool.

no it is still funny, in nervous and tearful kind of laugh


Last time I had nearly 12v on a 5v line, (most of the board
was 5v logic) I
didn't waste time diagnosing. It was faster to change all the
silicon and
worry about shorted tantalums later.

uhggg what a project my small project has become

Checking the semis afterwards, I found nearly half of them
were stuffed, and
the other half I wouldn't have trusted anyway.

That was at nearly 12 volts. Not 32.

In your shoes, (depending on the scale of the baord and
availability of
replacement boards) I'd either outright replace it, or, if this
is the only
one left in existence I'd turf the silicon, and hope the EPROM
or flash or
wherever the code is stored still works.


i really hope i actually make it to those problems considering
what i have read so far.

thanks for the help and ideas,
robb