Soooo, what happens when you accidentally power on the Boscam TS352 TX 500mw TX without the antenna attached?
zoochase said:So by "smoke out" you mean fan no longer turning and unit no longer transmitting?
ladykate said:zoochase said:So by "smoke out" you mean fan no longer turning and unit no longer transmitting?
Yes. All electronics have a certain amount of smoke in them. If you let the smoke out, then they no longer work. If your tx has let all its smoke out then you have to buy another. (old electronics addage. no insult - we've all done it).
zoochase said:Sad day. You would think with all this technology available there would be a way to idiot proof things like that. I wasn't thinking about the TX when I powered up to upgrade firmware. Grrrr. Time to up grade to the 600mw now I guess.
Thank you ladykate.
zoochase said:So by "smoke out" you mean fan no longer turning and unit no longer transmitting?
jondrew said:zoochase said:So by "smoke out" you mean fan no longer turning and unit no longer transmitting?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=let+the+smoke+out
ladykate said:jondrew said:zoochase said:So by "smoke out" you mean fan no longer turning and unit no longer transmitting?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=let+the+smoke+out
Take the space out between urban and dictionary and the link works (corrected in this quote). Smoke escaping can be expensive... once let all the smoke out of an aircraft computer when I dropped a pair of safety pliers into the innards while repairing it - kinda embarrassing.