I am building a very small circuit for controlling my 3 watt lasers.
It involves a surface-mount picaxe 08m2.
It is very weird what is happening. I know i have made a wiring mistake somewhere as the picaxe is drawing 200mA and gets to untouchable temperatures in seconds.
Heres the weird part, the actual circuit runs perfectly, even drawing 200mA and picaxe probably getting to 100degrees C. For 2 Minutes!
I Made this same circuit on breadboard originally and it used less than 10mA.
What are the causes of picaxe overheat while still functioning?
It involves a surface-mount picaxe 08m2.
It is very weird what is happening. I know i have made a wiring mistake somewhere as the picaxe is drawing 200mA and gets to untouchable temperatures in seconds.
Heres the weird part, the actual circuit runs perfectly, even drawing 200mA and picaxe probably getting to 100degrees C. For 2 Minutes!
I Made this same circuit on breadboard originally and it used less than 10mA.
What are the causes of picaxe overheat while still functioning?