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Yup, those transistors have 0 chance of surviving a short circuit :) Fine example of "maker electronics". Yep. Just replaced all of them and they work. It's a bit annoying that this happens considering the fans are one of the easiest things to short circuit... Anyway, for anyone living in...

I took a look at that thread and attempted swapping one of the broken transistors with one from a board I knew was good, and it worked! Thanks!

I decided to buy a bunch of them off DigiKey; hopefully they'll work. I'll post an update once I receive them.

I've been working with a few Ultimaker 2+ printers lately and I just noticed that it is impossible to change the brightness of the LEDs and/or control the side cooling fans on some of them. I know that on one of the printers the LEDs were shorted before this issue appeared, and on another one the fa...