> Yesterday I was asked to examine an appliance that had "made a spark" in the
> test kitchen.  I
>
> PUT ON MY SAFETY GLASSES
>
> and plugged it in.  Nothing much happened.  I took off the case, placed a
> voltmeter probe on a likely spot, turned it on and
>
> KABOOM!
>
> Paper everywhere.
>
> A power supply diode was shorted, putting MAINS AC voltage directly on an
> electrolytic capacitor.  They sound like a .22 caliber rifle going off.  And
> they shoot the can across the room hard enough to put a hole in the
> suspended cieling.
>
>
> I could have been blinded.  Wear them specs, boys!
>

>
> PTM: NO more carbage like this !
> PICLIST is allready full of zero-information emeiling.
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Lawrence Lile wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I was asked to examine an appliance that had "made a spark" in the
> > test kitchen.  I
> >
> > PUT ON MY SAFETY GLASSES
> >
> > and plugged it in.  Nothing much happened.  I took off the case, placed a
> > voltmeter probe on a likely spot, turned it on and
> >
> > KABOOM!
> >
> > Paper everywhere.
> >
> > A power supply diode was shorted, putting MAINS AC voltage directly on an
> > electrolytic capacitor.  They sound like a .22 caliber rifle going off.  And
> > they shoot the can across the room hard enough to put a hole in the
> > suspended cieling.
> >
> >
> > I could have been blinded.  Wear them specs, boys!
> >
>
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> PTM: NO more carbage like this !
> PICLIST is allready full of zero-information emeiling.
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Lawrence Lile wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I was asked to examine an appliance that had "made a spark" in the
> > test kitchen.  I
> >
> > PUT ON MY SAFETY GLASSES
> >
> > and plugged it in.  Nothing much happened.  I took off the case, placed a
> > voltmeter probe on a likely spot, turned it on and
> >
> > KABOOM!
> >
> > Paper everywhere.
> >
> > A power supply diode was shorted, putting MAINS AC voltage directly on an
> > electrolytic capacitor.  They sound like a .22 caliber rifle going off.  And
> > they shoot the can across the room hard enough to put a hole in the
> > suspended cieling.
> >
> >
> > I could have been blinded.  Wear them specs, boys!
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PTM, ptmustaKILLspamutu.fi, http://www.utu.fi/~ptmusta                 OH1HEK
> Lab.ins. (mikrotuki) ATK-keskus/Mat.Luon.Tdk                    OI7234
> Lab.engineer (PC support) Computer Center
> Mail: Turun Yliopisto / Fysla,  20014 Turku
> Pt 02-3336669, FAX 02-3335632 (Pk 02-2387010, NMT 0400-555577)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Yesterday I was asked to examine an appliance that had "made a spark" in the
> test kitchen.  I
>
> PUT ON MY SAFETY GLASSES
>
> and plugged it in.  Nothing much happened.  I took off the case, placed a
> voltmeter probe on a likely spot, turned it on and
>
> KABOOM!
>
> Paper everywhere.
>
> A power supply diode was shorted, putting MAINS AC voltage directly on an
> electrolytic capacitor.  They sound like a .22 caliber rifle going off.  And
> they shoot the can across the room hard enough to put a hole in the
> suspended cieling.
>
>
> I could have been blinded.  Wear them specs, boys!