Hi Howard,

I had a similar incident about a year ago. I was asleep and woke up to a loud crack followed by a sizzle. I thought sure that a wall-wart or something similar had bit the dust and was going to be smoking but when I jumped out of bed and turned on the light, there was no smoke or smell or any other sign of what had made the noise. Initially, I hypothesized that it was probably the sound of a power surge heard through my PC speakers (which were on and powered by a wall-wart), but months later I found my answer: I opened up a hand-held shortwave receiver to discover that one of its AA cells had opened up and was leaking. I was surprised that it was so loud!

Merry Christmas to all!

Sean


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I had a worrying incident about a week ago - in my living room, where a lot of 
my computer equipment and some 
electronics is located, there was a loud "crack" sound, that could 
easily have been a small capacitor 
exploding, but I have no idea where it came from, and everything in the room is 
still working!  I wonder what 
it was?  :-#


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