{"id":8699,"date":"2007-03-24T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/dead-short\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:12","slug":"dead-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/dead-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do any of you have any good pointers for troubleshooting a dead short in electronics stuffs?<\/p>\n<p>I tried to power up my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atarimuseum.com\/computers\/8BITS\/XL\/xlperipherals\/atari1050.html\">Atari 1050<\/a> earlier today and found that the power LED wasn&#8217;t illuminating. Opening it up showed that AC power is getting into it and being rectified, but the output legs of the LM7805 and LM7812 shows a dead short to ground.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I&#8217;m having a hard time finding a schematic for it. :(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do any of you have any good pointers for troubleshooting a dead short in electronics stuffs? I tried to power up my Atari 1050 earlier today and found that the power LED wasn&#8217;t illuminating. Opening it up showed that AC power is getting into it and being rectified, but the output legs of the LM7805\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12931,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions\/12931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}