<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ouch. Sounds like maybe a Tantalum cap ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum_capacitor" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum_capacitor</a> ) ?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Quite likely. There was a remaining blob of metal surrounded by scorched epoxy and smoke stains. The blob is the right size for a T-cap.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Other damage...<div><div><br><br>On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">It was preceded by a flash of magic arc then a sustained burst of magic fire. </p>
<p dir="ltr">By then I had yanked the power cord. The now unidentifiable component that spectacularly failed had turned to a glowing slag ember. I had no idea solder could get yellow hot without just puddling in the bottom of the case.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A video card failed and burned out the power supply. No obvious evidence of the failure of the video card but the power supply was completely dead. New on was 100W bigger. That was enough to turn the failed component on the video card into a light bulb.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Fun!</p>
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