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MrBungle · 16th Feb 2018, 12:02 am

The SMD ceramic MLCC capacitors are pretty nasty. If you hand solder them particularly or they become fractured which doesn't take a lot of effort, they can go short. I found this out on a board I did recently that I hand soldered. Stuffed it on my PL154 with 2A limit and it blew the thing off the board after about 3 seconds. Kemet 0805 100nF jobby.

16th Feb 2018, 12:02 am	#27
MrBungle Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: London, UK. Posts: 3,687	Re: Tants The SMD ceramic MLCC capacitors are pretty nasty. If you hand solder them particularly or they become fractured which doesn't take a lot of effort, they can go short. I found this out on a board I did recently that I hand soldered. Stuffed it on my PL154 with 2A limit and it blew the thing off the board after about 3 seconds. Kemet 0805 100nF jobby.