Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] LED blinking

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:42:00PM -0500, Rahul Dhar wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:18:57PM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote:
> > 
> > Pull out your trusty ohm meter and with the board unplugged from the
> > power supply, check continuity across the fuse F501.  If you start at
> > the power connector and follow the trace on the top, it's the first
> > thing you run into.
> 
> The ohm meter says that nothing is going through the fuse.  Is there a
> special dance I can do to resurrect this thing?
> 
> -Rahul

Fire up your soldering iron, remove the fuse, replace with short piece
of wire.

[I've had this happen to me too.  I suspect that the time constant on
the fuse is too small.  We may have momentarily high in-rush current
that's blowing them.]