@nomadradio I don't doubt that you are right, but I have a question for you about this.
Lets say the transistor is bad, in what way could it fail that pulls the collector down that far when, even if it were a dead short, that power isn't going to ground? I had the same assumption as you here, but didn't go with it due to the collector being drawn down too, something that I didn't think could happen unless something else is also shorting down stream of it. What did I miss there?
Lets say the transistor is bad, in what way could it fail that pulls the collector down that far when, even if it were a dead short, that power isn't going to ground? I had the same assumption as you here, but didn't go with it due to the collector being drawn down too, something that I didn't think could happen unless something else is also shorting down stream of it. What did I miss there?