Whew!

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Wed May 5 22:38:33 1999

At 10:49 PM 5/5/99 -0400, Allison J Parent wrote:
>Likely a tantalum capacitor cooked. I've seen that on various drives. often
>if removed and the board cleaned up they still operate. They usually short
>just hard enough that a good power supply will smoke the offending cap.
>Generally if caught soon enough the no damage save for a bad cap cooked
>to a crisp.

Yup, it could easily be the remains of a Tantalum cap. Weirdest smell. I
can't believe that the rest of the board could survive something like this
but hey it isn't like the thing is any good as a paper weight! Now to pull
one of the others and figure out what value cap used to live there...

--Chuck
Received on Wed May 05 1999 - 22:38:33 BST