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From: michael@xanadu.COM (Michael McClary)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Fixing BSR modules...
Keywords: bsr lamp module
Message-ID: <fsxnT#1WLYVy=michael@xanadu.COM>
Date: 12 Aug 89 12:49:03 GMT
References: <189@flight.uucp>
Reply-To: michael@xanadu.UUCP (Michael McClary)
Organization: Xanadu Operating Company, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <189@flight.uucp> george@flight.UUCP (George Rachor x65135) writes:
>I have had a lamp module become defective after having a light on the
>circuit burn out.  I have heard that if the light burns out and
>shorts during burnout that a specific component is destroyed.
>
>Anyone know what this component would be and where I could get a 
>replacement?

Sometimes it's a semiconductor that fries, but there's a little loop of
fuse wire on the pc board of (at least some) X-10 modules.  Trace the
circuit and see if that's what popped before investing in semiconductors.

(You can replace it with a single strand from a lamp cord.)