With the delay from lightening to thunder, the small flash inside my CE device actually came first; followed by me wondering “what the hell was that?”; then the thunder and pretty shortly after was my realisation of what had just happened; followed by my expletive of choice.
I am SO glad that I forked out the extra $’s to get the AUS/US power adapter with the surge protector… Thank you very f*cking much Jackson!!! I should have know better and sent the power through my real surge protector as well. Thankfully all of my equipment attached to my Powersmart board didn’t even shut down.
Two days of relatively solid work to get the build process working, I had just successfully deployed my OS image to the device for the first time and I am never going to see if it actually bloody worked!
I have put too much effort into this in the last few weeks to walk away. I will get on to the competition organisers and see what my options are from here.
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That’s terrible. Those tack-on surge protectors really don’t do very much. You should open it up and see if the surge protector is anything more than a red LED
Good luck getting some replacement gear.