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DigiX SMOKE! (thread should have been here)

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exeng:
Seeing about 1.4A whether Wifi enabled or not. Don't know what a normal current draw would be. Concerned that some decoupling caps are leaking or shorted.

Solice:
That's about six times more than I'd expect.  Probably a short somewhere, which may have been what fried the regulator.

exeng:
Putting down a new regulator will most likely confirm that there is more damage than I initially thought there was.  I think I already know the answer.  I may be shopping for a Mega or Due with a Wifi shield. Arrrgh! I'm really going to miss my DigiX, but perhaps I shouldn't have based an ambitious project around a discontinued board.

I wonder if any surge protection, Zener, or slow ramp on the supply voltage would have prevented this?

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