sheldons, many years ago, our planet was invaded by aliens called tantalum capacitors. They were sent here to cause problems in electronic circuits by becoming solid short circuits. One of their greatest heroes was one called 4.7uF 35v that shut down a massive blow molding machine by placing a short circuit across the control circuit 5v supply, concealing itself in the rows of CMOS ics.lovely tantalum capacitors .....altho a few years back i got a few that were faulty from the off but it depends where you buy your parts from...
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