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   Phil Allison to Cursitor Doom   
   Re: Scope keeps blowing fuses   
   23 Oct 22 16:46:49   
   
   From: pallison49@gmail.com   
      
    Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   ---------------------------------   
   > And if those   
   > caps fail open circuit (which they both did despite being X2 safety   
   > ones which are supposed to fail short)   
      
   ** Really ?  Where did you get that idea?   
      
   Plenty are found open or with low values after long times in service.   
   X2 dropping caps used in smoke alarms regularly fail open.   
      
   But those Rifa ones love to smoke and burn.   
      
   .......Phil   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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