Hello all, I am new here.
I recently purchased a PICAXE AXE091 development board, when I powered it up for the first time there was that hot electronics smell of a toasting component, thats whan I noticed an 8 pin chip (12F508) in the 24LCxx socket that was extremely hot.
This chip appears to be a Microchips PICS microprocessor.
What was it it for?
Why would it have been in that socket?
The board obviously runs fine without the said chip and I am currently cutting my teeth successfully using the 18M2+ asupplied and a 20M2 that I bought with another kit
I recently purchased a PICAXE AXE091 development board, when I powered it up for the first time there was that hot electronics smell of a toasting component, thats whan I noticed an 8 pin chip (12F508) in the 24LCxx socket that was extremely hot.
This chip appears to be a Microchips PICS microprocessor.
What was it it for?
Why would it have been in that socket?
The board obviously runs fine without the said chip and I am currently cutting my teeth successfully using the 18M2+ asupplied and a 20M2 that I bought with another kit