Tvbegone kit battery's overheating.
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Tvbegone kit battery's overheating.
I got my tvbegone kit a couple of weeks ago and I assembled it in stock form, it worked great. Yesterday I got bored and decided to put it in a cell phone shell. To do this I had to extend the LED and use a different battery holder, when everything was reassembled the battery's get hot enough to burn my hand within about 45sec. The first time it overheated I didn't notice for about 2 minutes and it melted some of the plastic in the battery holder, with the plastic around the spring melted so it popped out. I have tried several different battery holders and different brands of AA's, It also overheats when I removed the micro controller. I do not see any places were it is shorting, but it must be shorting some ware. Any ideas?
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Here they are, they are pretty hi res so you can zoom in and see. around the were the battery connects the solder gets messy, because I have been taking battery packs on and off but the leads do not the battery packs on and off.
http://theklomp.com/tvbegone1.jpg
http://theklomp.com/tvbegone2.jpg
and after I took the photos it started working again, for now.
http://theklomp.com/tvbegone1.jpg
http://theklomp.com/tvbegone2.jpg
and after I took the photos it started working again, for now.
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