Q: What would happen if a 7805p transistor received too much ripple input voltage.
Back story: On my HK avr 7000 the smoothing cap on a 3.3 and 5v line, a 10000 mf 16v cap was swollen.
That feeds to a few transistors and the 3.3v and 5v - 4 different voltage outputs infact have other smoothing caps - both electrolytic and smd caps. I found all 4 electrolytic caps swollen.
I am replacing all 5 of the electrolytics. However I am wondering what will have happened to the transistor and the rest of the mess of components in the way and past them.
Cool.
Srinath.
Back story: On my HK avr 7000 the smoothing cap on a 3.3 and 5v line, a 10000 mf 16v cap was swollen.
That feeds to a few transistors and the 3.3v and 5v - 4 different voltage outputs infact have other smoothing caps - both electrolytic and smd caps. I found all 4 electrolytic caps swollen.
I am replacing all 5 of the electrolytics. However I am wondering what will have happened to the transistor and the rest of the mess of components in the way and past them.
Cool.
Srinath.