The Spark Between » electronics http://www.mccambridge.org/blog Thoughts, Projects, Happenings, Ideas Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:10:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 RIP Creative DDTS-100 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/08/rip-creative-ddts-100/ http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2008/08/rip-creative-ddts-100/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:21:32 +0000 Colin M http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/?p=467 Sad day. Electronics from freshman year of college have finally given up the ghost… the Creative DDTS-100 was a pretty awesome little device:

It was essentially a multiplexer / digital multichannel decoder for powered speakers, such as what you would buy for a PC. Think mini-receiver with no amplifiers.  Nate & I used it in the dorms extensively to drive my Klipsch ProMedia 5.1′s, but it seems in the 2 years of transportation and storage since, the forces that be took it out on my poor DDTS-100:

For the non-techies: Broken circuit boards are bad.  Quite bad.

For the techies: Apparently (based on the smell and general not-working-ness) this connected a couple hot traces to a ground plane, shorted the power circuits, and fried the heck out of a bunch of stuff :-/
Rest in peace.

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