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Jeff

@thegibson

I received approval from our CEO to proceed with building a prototype of some testing equipment that I had designed and presented.

I had assured him that, although it was complex, it would be well within my skillset to complete on time.

I designed and etched the required PCBs and completed the assembly on time and it came time to power it on for the first time.

There was a huge boom as a large capacitor exploded. I had soldered it in with the wrong polarity. 😅

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Jeff

@thegibson

The story has an interesting twist, though…

The company was a manufacturer of simulation grenades for Airsoft and everyone was used to huge booms going off when the assembly team was running QA test batchs.

Turns out that nobody even noticed what I'd done and, after my ears stopped ringing, I replaced the dead components and continued on my merry way.

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