Question Over voltage

[MightBreakIt101]

I didn’t know… now I do. I was lazy and plugged a 12v plug from my security cameras into my rasb pi 4 model b. For a helium crypto miner. It gets really hot almost immediately now. Anything I can do with it, bought a new one.

 

[MishterKirby]

If it gets hot with a 5v adapter, you most likely killed it and there's nothing you can do with it

 

[MightBreakIt101]

If it gets hot with a 5v adapter, you most likely killed it and there's nothing you can do with it

Yeah that’s what happens. How hard is it to take off the Ethernet adapter and solder it to another rasb pi same model..

 

[MishterKirby]

Desolder the ethernet adapter? Like the connector at the back? There's no need to do that, since every Raspberry Pi 4 has one (unless you somehow modified yours)

 

[MightBreakIt101]

Desolder the ethernet adapter? Like the connector at the back? There's no need to do that, since every Raspberry Pi 4 has one (unless you somehow modified yours)

I uhh put a drill bit in the working one.. got a usb 3 to Ethernet adapter. Thinking it’s bottlenecking the working rasb pi.

 

[MishterKirby]

I uhh put a drill bit in the working one

May I ask what you're doing that resulted in this

Thinking it’s bottlenecking the working rasb pi.

It would be a bit slower, but not by that much of a noticeable margin

And to answer your original question, if you don't have a lot of experience soldering, its almost going to be impossible

 

[OldSurferDude]

May I ask what you're doing that resulted in this


It would be a bit slower, but not by that much of a noticeable margin

And to answer your original question, if you don't have a lot of experience soldering, its almost going to be impossible

You make a good point. This would be a time to get the experience you need to unsolder and solder the connector. Then you'll have the experience the next time you need to do a bit of soldering.

OSD

 

[MightBreakIt101]

You make a good point. This would be a time to get the experience you need to unsolder and solder the connector. Then you'll have the experience the next time you need to do a bit of soldering.

OSD

So I bought a helium miner. The brand I bought Finestra covered up the Ethernet port. So I dumbly used a drill bit to hollow out the plastic. Drill bit went Into Ethernet port. Gotta say It was a prefect estimation of where it would be. Just used too much force.

 

[OldSurferDude]

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.