All You Need To KNOW About CROWBAR Circuits To FIX Stuff! How crowbar circuit works tutorial

The Crowbar Circuit. What Is It? What Does It Do? This video came about due to some comments on an industrial repair video I made recently. A subscriber was asking if a diode on the PCB was a crowbar circuit. Not everyone seemed to know about this type of circuit, how to recognise it and what it does, so I decided to make a shortish video.



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