Board smoking during upload 😳

Proffieboards
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Hey guys, random question here. I was uploading some fun Christmas blade styles to a Yoda 89sabers proffie a couple days ago when my board randomly started smoking upon upload?

I immediately unplugged it but couldn’t tell where the smoke was coming from. Everything looked normal, and I didn’t see any charring anywhere. I tried unsuccessfully to reconnect with no luck, followed my a few unsuccessful attempts at resetting the board and uploading again.

After giving up, I returned a few hours later and tried the reboot again, this time successfully for a Christmas miracle. Everything works perfectly normally now.

Any idea what could have caused this and how to avoid it happening again in the future? I did have my battery inserted, but I feel as though I’ve seen a number of times on here that it’s okay to do that. Any thoughts? When I saw that thing smoking, I was sure it was done for.

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the upload of the proffieboard doesn’t usually use power, the only time magic smoke happens is during the build process, so a few questions, did you have the battery in the appropriate position. neg with neg and pos with pos? e.g. did you have the battery in reverse polarity?

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Nope. Normal position.

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Uploading wouldn’t do it, but some sort of short would.
So, maybe your battery positive touched battery negative, or something else of that nature. Goose-necked wires, or loose strands…

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It’s a tight fit to get the usb cord inserted. I wonder if I dislodged something or caused something to make contact that normally doesn’t. Weird. Maybe I’ll just take the battery out from now on. Especially when it’s easy.

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config questions it’s always best to copy and past BUT photos of the wiring helps as well take a a high def photo of your board just to see if you didn’t short something out.