4 days in - founmd some Vregulators faulting - replaced em', Set display came on - I was stoked... So I re attach (aluminum) back panel and footstool (70 or so screws ) set her upright and fire her up to notice a small vertical line on the far right during blue screen search for signal. Me in so much joy, decides, "Hey I can probably adjust that out!" and grabs a phillips to adjust a trimmer pot on the pwr board THROUGH THE ALUMINUM CASING HOLES.... Dumbest move ever in my old age, even a green horn knows what come next. 170V gap through my metal screwdriver to the chassis ground. POP! derp. dbl derp.
Anywase, after kicking myself in the face a million times tonight, like a gymnast, my question is, on the main board (seperate from the power board where I shorted to ground) , sensitive chips like the EEPROM and such, having a common ground, have they been subjected to damage?
I'm going to sleep tonight a lil' tipsy and PO'd at myself still for such rookie oversight and slumber, that I'd like to tell myself all the other boards sans the PWR board have been isolated from the surge for the power will trace itself in a straightline to earth ground.
Someone put me to bed with that theory as confirmed. TYIA
Anywase, after kicking myself in the face a million times tonight, like a gymnast, my question is, on the main board (seperate from the power board where I shorted to ground) , sensitive chips like the EEPROM and such, having a common ground, have they been subjected to damage?
I'm going to sleep tonight a lil' tipsy and PO'd at myself still for such rookie oversight and slumber, that I'd like to tell myself all the other boards sans the PWR board have been isolated from the surge for the power will trace itself in a straightline to earth ground.
Someone put me to bed with that theory as confirmed. TYIA