[ale] I saw the magic smoke escape!

[Charles Shapiro]

Ouch. Sounds like maybe a Tantalum cap (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum_capacitor ) ?

-- CHS


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Other damage...
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It was preceded by a flash of magic arc then a sustained burst of magic
>> fire.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Fun!
>>
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