MOTM

At 11:21 AM -0700 4/27/03, Bob Colwell wrote:
>Are you absolutely certain beyond any doubt that you didn't have it
>in backwards?

Yes.

>Electrolytics leak more with temperature, and heat up
>as they leak, so if they're ever put in backwards, you could have
>from 5 minutes to several hundred minutes before they burn out.
>Some of them burn out most spectacularly, waiting until the temp
>is higher than the flashpoint of the electrolyte, in which case
>miniature fireballs are launched from the printed circuit card.

It died peacefully.