14 Feb
2010
14 Feb
'10
11:28 a.m.
On 2/14/10 10:45 AM, Randy Dawson wrote:
Dwight,
There was some criminal stuff going on with electrolytes in this era
This has absolutely NOTHING to due with the problems he is seeing, nor is
it even from the right DECADE.
Solid Tantalum capacitors have the failure mode he is observing, they short.
Many electronics companies banned their engineers from designing them in for
this exact reason. When they short, they BURN UP, often taking large chunks of the
circuit board with them.