You must spread your AntiPoints around before giving it to nihil again.
You just about covered this word for word how I would have said this. Except I wouldn't have used a British accent.

cntfind80,

Everyone has to learn sometime, and I commend you on your interest in hardware. You might try studying a few books on basic electronics and semi-conductors. Anyone who has been around these things as long as I have, knows that solid state devices are "smoke powered" if the smoke gets out of them they will never work again.