Gus wrote in news:33b62e5e-b2e5-408c-92b6-
:


I wonder if his 'red hot component' might be a surface mount LED?

the component the OP has circled in the photo is labeled as a
capacitor.

My bad. I should have looked at the pictures. Strange that the chip doesn't
unsolder itself from the board if it gets that hot!



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bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.