Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:21:47 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: 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: <200301300421.h0U4Llcn085208@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20030130022752.1872F2A89E@canning.wemm.org> <200301300246.h0U2kTbJ084870@apollo.backplane.com> <3E3894E0.1388D52E@mindspring.com>
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: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
<dillon@backplane.com>
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