Two capacitors met daily on a board Finally they decided to be a couple He was a big 1,000 uF Al lyt She a beautiful 100 uf tantalyt One night when the other components slept they parallelled, quite natural. But to be safe, with a diode in between She groaned happily: Wow, how many amperes! He, proudly: Mmm, darling, it's because my extremly low ESR. Time passed, and one day it was her time And she discharged a whole number of tiniest seen tantalyts and al lytes, most for SMT Suddenly, he jumped up and stared What's this! Among the caps were seen a number of small 1 Ohm resistors. Then he shouted: Darling, didn't I tell you several times not to have that 10 Ohm resistor in series. Learning story? Ingemar --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------