Powering up a 20-year old MicroVAX II

[Christian Corti]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> This is the only popped electrolytic I have ever seen, in damn near 30 years 
> of fiddling with electronic stuff:
>
> http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/blowncap.jpg

I do have tons of such caps, mostly from modern PC mainboards, ATX power 
supplies and graphics cards. This is *very* common today due to the high 
frequency and high current nature of the designs.

Christian