1 Mar
2009
1 Mar
'09
7:11 p.m.
If it was plugged in but not switched on and something
popped, it'll be
the mains filter cap. They *do* fail, and they're easy to replace.
In seeing photos of this in the process of dealing with it offlist, it looks
exactly like that's what it was. When I asked about the markings on the
failed parts I was told that they included "250V", which is way inadequate
for UK mains voltages...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin