How two Ardupilots died in one weekend.

Yes I was so proud. I had a perfect working ardupilot. I was going to attach my just arrived Z sensor.
Then Murphy law kicked in. When a friend was over I showed him my ardupilot. and the working.
The positive power line of the lipo accu was not perfectly isolated and made contact with the back plane of the ardupilot.
Yes it fried it. :-( . No swet I have a spare one). Solderd the headers tested the upload all fine. Now I needed to load the new firmware for the failsave. I dit this before and had some trouble but I managed. Now I really made a mistake. I forgot to power the arduino externally with the esc when I burned the hex and fuses and is not responding any more. So my attiny45 is gone now. So I just logged in the sparkfun site to backorder two new Ardupilots. And some xbee's end some other stuff.

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Comment by Chris Anderson on April 13, 2009 at 7:08am
Bummer! It's always safest the power the board from an ESC. All of those connectors are polarized so it's almost impossible to fry the board that way. But I'm surprised that using an AVR programmer without the board being powered fried a chip. It shouldn't have.
Comment by Jonas on April 13, 2009 at 7:18am
I have a USBtinyISP and I left the jumper on. When the jumper is on the USBtinyISP will give power and so the led go on on the ardupilot board. I think sometinh went worg on the end of the programming. I was getting some strange setting from the fuses tab and then it was gone.

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Comment by Brian on April 13, 2009 at 12:41pm
I want to try something and need a working board with a dead attiny45...
Comment by Reto on April 13, 2009 at 2:55pm
Sorry Brian, I had a board with a dead ATtiny45, but I already replaced it with a new ATtiny45... wrong one, but new. And it works! Now I call this board the Buguino!


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Comment by Brian on April 13, 2009 at 4:33pm
That's funny and along the lines of what I want to try. If Jonas doesn't want his anymore I want a second chance at fixing one knowing what I learned while attempting to fix my last one, which is totally and utterly
D E A D !!! (expecially after I tried to fix :)

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Comment by Reto on April 13, 2009 at 11:48pm
Brian, what went so wrong when you tried to fix it? Do you have a pic showing the result? Finally, it's a funeral thread where all of us could post some electronic failures or mishap.
Comment by Jonas on April 14, 2009 at 3:26am
Brian you dit a nice job with your ATtiny45 (big). I dont know if that is still possible for me. I may have damaged the PCB while trying to lose the old one. Yes I will send some Picture's later. And I will go to the store to buy some electronic's that I also need but I dont know if they have a ATtiny on the shelf.
Comment by Reto on April 14, 2009 at 6:31am
To get rid of an ATtiny45, Chris gave me the perfect tip: cut the uC legs with small cutting pliers and then unsolder each leg remain individually. In my case I did not have such small pliers, so I carefully cut the legs near the uC body with an ActoKnife. But my work would have been better if I had waited for a right sized ATtiny45 replacement!
Comment by Jonas on April 14, 2009 at 12:42pm


I have removed the ATtiny45 (not whitout some damage). Now I have 2 questions.
1: in the left circle the top of the black (condensator) is that connected to the tirth leg?
2: in the other circle looks like the first leg is connected to A8 or is that just mess I made?
Comment by Reto on April 14, 2009 at 4:45pm
Check out the ArduPilot schematics to make it clear. There's also a pic of the board connection lines somewhere, but I can't find it right now.

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