[MinnowBoard] flotsam beware #2

[John "Warthog9" Hawley]

On December 26, 2014 2:43:50 PM EST, Chris Brookes <chris at txrx.org> wrote:
>My Flotsam arrived earlier. I plugged it in with no mSATA card inserted
>and the MinnowboardMax failed to start. The blue power led just
>blinked. I then removed power, inserted a mSATA SSD and replugged the
>power, and it blew like the one mentioned a few days ago. Luckily I
>heeded Dave’s warning and had it at arms length. The Minnowboard seems
>to be unharmed. It continues to run fine. I hope I can say the same of
>the mSATA SSD when I next get a chance to use it.
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I think it's safe to say if you purchased a flotsam from CircuitCo (Technodisti) please contact them before using it. Reports I'm getting (while on vacation,  and without access to my work E-mail) seem to indicate that there's a cap that might be installed backwards, resulting in the exciting pictures we've seen over the last couple of days.

If you've got a flotsam that has "popped" please contact your seller or rma at minnowboard.org, please specifically CC my work address john.hawley (at) intel.com when you E-mail. I'm asking CircuitCo to contact those who have bought with instructions on how to check the capacitor, and if it's reversed to proceed with a replacement immediately.

As soon as I've got instructions on how to check the capacitor, I'll post information.

- John "Warthog9" Hawley
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