mbcv aout ng on 15v?

i was measuring against the right side/analog. actually when you said that it is a GND pour i got really worried its not connected to anything except pin3 of ic3 and the connecting jumper pin.

What I meant to say was: the “gnd pour” on the bottom side, analog section (right hand on your pics), shouldn’t have connection to ANYTHING, i.e. including GND, it’s just there for a little shielding but has no function. But if you damaged the solder mask laquer and made connection to it on more than one occasion, it could be responsible for a short, too.

Anyway, maybe try to resolder a few things and carefully inspect the whole area around the jumpers and IC3 under a good light and maybe a magnifying glass. Keep trying to solve that problem with removed jumper and IC3. If you can’t find anything, you could try removing the IC socket or the jumper headers, although desoldering on double sided PCBs is never easy and your J3 doesn’t exactly make you look like an expert in that field ;). A way to check at least one place from above without risking to damage the PCB is to remove only the black plastic from the jumper headers. Normally you can move that plastic if you’re patient and maybe heat up the pins a little.

S

haha… you know whats funny is i learned this on j3. i tried to remove the sil header to put in a mta type header. brutalized it then figured i could just pull up the plastic and replace it with the snap in type. the only thing is the pins are still alittle small. goes to show live and learn or take some time out think and re think…

ok had some time to go over stuff today and… :stuck_out_tongue:

c5 is shorted

c4 shorted

c3 shorted

i guess this is why i have +5v to GND? im really curious if my dac is fried? i never left it on for over 5 seconds.

also what could have shorted all of them at the same time?

how did you test that? If the caps were desoldered for the test - no idea. if you’re measuring continuity on them while they’re still on the PCB that means you’ve got a short between 5V and GND.

S

ugh these are decoupling caps, one of them must be shorted though. i cant find anything else…