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Offline Hawaii00000Topic starter

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Think I killed my arduino...
« on: December 31, 2009, 06:21:46 PM »
Earlier this month I was doing something with my arduino when one or two of the pins shorted out. Now I can't get the arduino to run servos.

Is it posible that the arduino lived through a short and will a short kill all the I/O?
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Re: Think I killed my arduino...
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2009, 07:46:23 PM »
Can you flash the Arduino? can you still blink the LED?

You can burn out individual pins, but i haven't seen someone taking out all the I/O with a few pins shorting.
Try setting all pins high, check with voltage meter, and set all low and check with voltage meter.

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Re: Think I killed my arduino...
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2010, 08:56:17 AM »
On one hand, it seems unlikely that you ruined all the pins with just that, but then again shorts do strange things.
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Re: Think I killed my arduino...
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2010, 12:32:02 AM »
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Try setting all pins high, check with voltage meter, and set all low and check with voltage meter. 

 
 Thanks for the advice. I tried it out and found that the pins were fine, but there was an error in th circuit... problem solved
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