Not an exoskeleton beastie but, in the middle of last century, we had a 
5 kW transmitter go down. When the alarm went off I rushed to the 
transmitter room, to be greeted by a cloud of foul-smelling smoke. I 
grabbed a CO2 extinguisher and opened the back doors to see a small 
flame coming from the tank circuit which was at 3200 V DC + any RF 
signal. After the CO2 had sublimated, I found the remains of a chameleon 
that must have crawled in the ventilation holes at the bottom of the 
rack. Yes, it had changed colour, to black.

Took about GB£5,000 to repair that Tx.

Brian

On 19.09.2013 16:04, Victor Hernandez wrote:
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>    Can the remains of Insects/Bugs skeletal on the surface of a motherboard cause a functional failure before they died?
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