I have a Philips counter where a Tantalum regularly fails in the oven. They also failed commonly in transceiver finals in the 80's
>I powered up a 5071A to watch the end of Loran-C today >and was greeted by the special smell that only a mother >board could love. > >Does anyone know the history of tantalum capacitor >failures in ten-year old [HP/Agilent] test equipment? >This is not my first. Last one was more like July 4th. > >Thanks, >/tvb -- Raj, VU2ZAP Bangalore, India. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
