From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jan 29 20:21:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E63D37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D5B43F75 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0U4Lm0i085209; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0U4Llcn085208; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:21:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:21:47 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200301300421.h0U4Llcn085208@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: Peter Wemm , Dale Woolridge , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Over heating of the ABit BP6 motherboard References: <20030130022752.1872F2A89E@canning.wemm.org> <200301300246.h0U2kTbJ084870@apollo.backplane.com> <3E3894E0.1388D52E@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :If these are electrolytics, not tantalum, then they are polar. : :One thing we used to do for fun when I was a kid was run a lamp :cord with an electrolytic on the end of it, and a power switch :on the wall, and connect the things to 125VAC. The things blew :with the sound and force of an M-80, much more energetic than :your standard firecracker. :... :-- Terry Tantalum's are polarized too. If you connect them up backwards you get a nice little blue flash of an explosion. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message