Burnt track

Yaesu have just got back to me on their assessment of my FT-818ND, which I managed to kill recently through a brief contact of the +ve wire with the bare metal rear chassis of the rig. 

The engineer reports: "burnt out PCB track between DC Jack & T1035".

That seems fairly hopeful, even if the labour costs, repair and postage brings the bill to just over £100.  I'm just hoping that the damage didn't propagate further, and that once the track is repaired, more work might be needed.  In that case, a new unit is likely to be a better use of money.

Well, these things happen.  Luckily, my only signficant damage to any equipment in the past 10 years, and only occurred because I used those stupid Power Poles!