The air core inductor as you can see has melted the plastic forming shell thing, and you can kinda see in the pics that the enamel is much darker than the iron core. Also you can see the hot glue around the one resistor has gotten hot enough to turn it brown.

I also tried measuring the electrolytic capacitor on my DMM but only got an OL, Im not sure if the cap is bad or if its because of the rest of the circuit components. I didnt take it out because of all the glue. And my DMM can read caps with much higher values no problem.





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