Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:32:14 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Dale Woolridge <dale-list-freebsd-smp-2@woolridge.org>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Over heating of the ABit BP6 motherboard Message-ID: <200301300432.h0U4WEho024234@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <200301300421.h0U4Llcn085208@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > Tantalum's are polarized too. If you connect them up backwards > you get a nice little blue flash of an explosion. This also happens if you subject them to far-out-of-spec overvoltage. A few weeks ago I accidentally used a 6V tantalum in a 24V circuit. Oopsie. :-) Woke both my wife and I up rather quickly when I subjected it to the "smoke" (or in this case, "bang!") test. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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