Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP + case = electrical short??

[George Barrinuevo]

Hello,

I experienced a similar issue with my BasicRX and
other daughterboard.  Here is what I found.  When all
is working fine, the motherboards green LED blinks. 
Otherwise, it does not blink or come on when there is
a short.  When I loosened the nut/washer that holds
the SMA jumper cable to the case, the short went away.
 It appears that when this nut it tightened too much,
the locking washer will bite through the black pant on
the enclosure and make contact with the enclosure
metal which causes a short.  My solution was to loosen
this nut a bit.

A better solution is to find plastic thin washers and
use this instead of the locking washers supplied with
the enclosure.  However, I was not able to find a
plastic washer in the right size.  Someone on this
mailing list used a sheet protector with an
exacto-knife to cut out a shape of a washer.

Does anyone have a better/easier solution to this
problem?

Thanks,

--- "Weber, Michael J. (US SSA)"
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a USRP with an RFX2400 mounted on the A side
> and a FLEX900
> mounted on the B side. Everything works great UNTIL
> I connect the SMA
> jumpers from a TX/RX port on either board to the
> case. When the
> connection between the TX/RX ground and the case is
> made, a short
> occurs, the regulator gets very hot, and the voltage
> at the input jack
> drops to about 2V. Of course I disconnected the
> power as soon as I
> discovered what was happening. The board seems happy
> out of the case, or
> even in the case if the antenna port jumpers are not
> installed. I have
> to other units just like this one running with no
> problems, though one
> of them has a FLEX400 instead of a FLEX900. 
> 
> So... any ideas where the short is? I inspected the
> case and USRP but
> didn't see anything telling, but there's a lot of
> tiny components and
> traces.
> 
> Help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
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> Mike Weber * 703-668-4516
> Network Engineer, BAE Systems 
> 
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George Barrinuevo
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