Quote Originally Posted by Darrel Taylor View Post
I'll take that bet.

It's got to be the Plethora of shorts that mister_e pointed out in the picture.
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But the poster did say that the regulator/etc didn't get hot until he put the PIC in the socket. Doesn't really make sense to me either. Maybe the stress across a couple of pins on that socket are shorting out only when the chip is in.