[Soekris] Solid state capacitors

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jan 11 15:50:13 UTC 2007


In message <45d561bc0701110741p3a4cc288ia508285848c5b5eb at mail.gmail.com>, "Mats
 Lundqvist" writes:

>I imagine the rest of the circuits on the board would do just fine in cold
>weather since they are all solid state.

Actually, the major failure mode is thermal stress due to differing
thermal expansion.

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