At 12:51 AM 27/04/01 -0500, you wrote:
>At 03:31 PM 4/27/01 +1000, David Duffy wrote:
>>At 11:57 PM 26/04/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>>Turns out, it was a 0.1uF leaded monolithic cap, that had developed an
>>>internal "short" of 11.2k.
>>>
>>>I've seen them fail shorted (near zero R) before, and open, but never 10k!
>>>
>>>It's a more complicated failure though, as I wasn't able to pull it up to
>>>5V, even with a 1k resistor.
>>>47 ohms got it there though.  Sort of like a bad zener, and definitely not
>>>what you expect from a capacitor!
>>>
>>>FWIW, there's the culprit.
>>
>>I always use MKT's for audio and timing applications. The mono's seem
>>to curl up and die when used for other than PSU de-coupling purposes.
>>Maybe it shouldn't be so, but repair experience has shown it to be true.
>>Regards...
>
>All this one had to do was get charged and discharged through 10k and
>10-150k resistors to 5V.
>Hardly a stressful app..

All I can say is that's exactly how I've seen them fail.  :-)
Can't explain it - it just happens!!
Regards...

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