I recently plugged in my cackle’s Halloween animatronic and it worked for about 2 days and then randomly shut off. I tried unplugging it and then plugged in again and it would work for about a second and then cut off. I initially thought it was a lose wire to the power supply but when opening the box a part of the board was insanely hot and had a light burn smell. I wasn’t able to remove the board so I kinda stopped plus I have no idea what I’m doing. Does anyone know a place that repairs or can provide a new board, or even maybe ran into the same issue but was able to fix it?
Chrisp88
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Yeah, @Engineerchic is most likely right. Even from the picture the 8 pin SOIC is almost certainly bad. I would not immediately replace it though. I would measure the impedance of the speaker before replacing it. If I were at work, and needed to get this out, I would replace the SOIC, the protection diode and the speaker all at once. In my experience you can spend a bunch of time isolating it, but in a service environment if the parts are cheap don't linger on it.
That being said, personally I like to know why and I would invest more time in it than I probably should.
That being said, personally I like to know why and I would invest more time in it than I probably should.
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