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Thanks for the help. I thought the power supply I was using was regulated and that it would be fine to give that much current, but that may not be the case. I will probably go and buy a different power supply. I really have no idea where the damage is. I saw a very small amount of smoke from under the control panel board. I didn't realize that the screen could be overloaded, I'll have to watch out for that. I noticed during testing that the areas that should have been at 12V were at ~14V, but I thought that was because there was no load over the circuit.

So, I finished my sammichSID last night!! And I was just thinking the screen was a little dim - I had the brightness trimpot at about 12 o'clock - and so I turned it up a little. I turned it to about 3 o'clock and it worked well for about 5 seconds, then i heard a small quite pop and saw some smoke - so I turned it off straight away! I opened it up to look for an signs of damage and saw none, so foolishly I turned it on again (bad idea) and it worked ok for a short time and then the screen backlight went out. so now I am sad. I assume there is something wrong with some capacitors that do something for the backlight power circuit, but I am a bit out of my depth. The kit was entirely finished except no SIDs were installed. Any idea where to start looking for the problem? the screen I have is the (high power?) green backlit screen (the default kit option) and I am using a 12V 1000mA power supply.