Colleague brought this chicken egg breeding device.
Customer states: It went pop, then... nothing.
Simple enough, dead electrolytic. Looking at the failure mode, I couldn't believe it.
The aluminum enclosure was ejected from under the plastic tubing/sleeve. Quite violently too.
I asked him and he said this is how he found it. The aluminum cap was rattling around inside.
You can't pull the plastic tube off of the capacitor remains. I tried.
Only thing I can imagine is it got hot, which loosened the plastic and after it cooled down it shrank again.
Has anyone ever seen this magic trick?
Colleague brought this chicken egg breeding device.
Customer states: It went pop, then... nothing.
Simple enough, dead electrolytic. Looking at the failure mode, I couldn't believe it.
The aluminum enclosure was ejected from under the plastic tubing/sleeve. Quite violently too.
I asked him and he said this is how he found it. The aluminum cap was rattling around inside.
You can't pull the plastic tube off of the capacitor remains. I tried.
Only thing I can imagine is it got hot, which loosened the plastic and after it cooled down it shrank again.
Has anyone ever seen this magic trick?
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