I just finished a build yesterday, tested and everything working, and was screwing down the bottom assembly when it shut off. I tried trouble shooting by removing my power source and all soldered components except for the Helder mintyPi v2. Now when I plug in my wall power source I get no green light on the pi, and the central processor gets remarkably hot very quickly.
Is it possible that I'm shorting somewhere? Or did I just burn my pi?
Did I fry my pi?
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Re: Did I fry my pi?
You may have a short somewhere. Check all the connections with a multimeter.
Also post some pictures from both side of the board so we can see if nothing suspicious is visible
Also post some pictures from both side of the board so we can see if nothing suspicious is visible
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Re: Did I fry my pi?
I tested all connections between the pi and Helder's board, everything is clean. Photos attached:
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Re: Did I fry my pi?
*Correction; When going through continuity tests, 3.3v is shorted to GND. I'm glad to know that's what's going on, but I can't for the life of me determine where it might be. Do you get any insight from the images?
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Re: Did I fry my pi?
You can test compressed air, maybe there is a cable rest or solder wire between the pi and pcb. If you have do desolder the pi: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2508&start=1590#p50786
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Re: Did I fry my pi?
I would test continuity between your vcc GPIOs and the surrounding GPIOs if you suspect a short. Also, I don't know if it's the picture or just me but it seems like your Pi isn't sitting square to the button PCB. The end that looks like it isn't square is the VCC and GND on the right side of photo 1.
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Re: Did I fry my pi?
I think de-soldering is going to be my best bet, as much of a pain as that is, since a.) I can't isolate the problem to either board until that's done, and b.) If I did fry my pi, I want to salvage that Helder board.
Thanks for the help guys, as always, appreciated. Thankfully I have a back-up, so I'm not totally out of work!
Thanks for the help guys, as always, appreciated. Thankfully I have a back-up, so I'm not totally out of work!
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Re: Did I fry my pi?
I hope you have a good hot air rework station to desolder them, just take your time and go back and forth across the whole GPIO area slowly to build up enough heat to melt the solder then put a little pressure (little being the key word here) to help separate the 2 boards as the solder is melted.
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