(Small square chip middle-right is visibly damaged). Is my understanding incorrect here? What could have gone wrong to cause this, and can the board be repaired?
Digging through the schematics and I found that this is a FUSB302BMPX, the USB controller. I’ve placed an order for a replacement chip, but I’d really like to understand what went wrong here before I try anything else. Any thoughts or leads or info would be greatly appreciated.
I exactly had the same problem on my board. FUSB burned randomly, my assumption was that the ripple in the converted DC was so high it exceeded >= 20V for too long. (i dont know the withstand of it).
However you can still push up to 19V to vbus of the type C header (could be more but put some margin due to crappy converters DC ripples) and your device should work fine. There are back to back regulators in the chain to give the correct voltage. But your PD is potato now. At least that was the case in my case.
I’m guessing your barrel to type-C connector applies incoming power to both VBUS and VCONN, which is unsafe (only VBUS is allowed to be higher than 5V, VCONN is not).
@Googulator It would appear that your conjecture is correct. It’s hard to say since the probes on my multimeter aren’t quite that fine, but my testing makes me fairly confident that there is continuity between the VBUS and CC1/CC2 pins. That sucks! Not only do I have to fix or replace my board, but I’ve got to find another part that doesn’t have that behavior
The 3Pin R1 version breaks out VBUS, GND, and CC. If I just leave CC disconnected I think it would have the desired behavior. I’ll definitely be continuity testing beforehand and I’ll report back here if it works/doesn’t work.
