Capacitor fire

[TheEPROM9]

The joy of modern electronics, they are so safe (sicasem)

[igwood71]

beware those counterfeit tantalums! burning is unmistakable tantalum. the yellow parts on the left are also tantalums.

[AhmedHan]

SMD capacitors look similar to diodes, that may be comfusing, but yes, that one is a capacitor.

[kakureru]

black are diodes, yellow / orange (however you see that color) are caps.

[scaleop4]

@kakureru thanks for the info thought it was a diode.

[williamblake69]

may as well just have made a vid of you and your boy-friend making out

[locoicampos]

IS DIODO IC HELLO FROM MEXICALI MEX

[chabo82]

the white strip indicates polarity

[DIGIBORDO]

Tantal's fire)))

[sephiroth671]

i'll cut your faces off

[TomasZEX10]

i allready finded out its volt meter

[TomasZEX10]

please someone tell me fast whats that thing that u check the voltage of capasitor is called??????????????????and what kinda 1 would i need it, i only need for checking capasitors from my graphic card!

[randomstufdude]

well on the side it has a thing that has a symbol that looks like a u in uf (micro farads) and it would say that on the capacitor and the voltage is on there as well thers a number and a v (volts) right after

[prornetheus]

sounded like the mythbusters in that video. maybe it was just my laptop speakers. but that was coool.

[holycrapapie]

umm... that's a diode

[Set1net]

Это танталовый конденсатор

[insult0master]

No, it's a capacitor...

[holycrapapie]

no, really, diode.

the positive end is marked with white.

[KITTYCAT0902]

Nice try. Silk screen says C20 which means its a cap-- which also have a white stripe to indicate polarity. Thank you for playing!

[lairthehair]

you win Kitty cat someone who nows how to read a board its a dying art form

[starshock01]

thats not a capacitor...

[slaterking1000]

wot was that?

[grenouil1970]

???????

[bodybager]

Another fine product from Sony!

[electronic26]

used a tantalum capacitors with format SMD?

[yeslover5]

to bad those are boxed diodes, and not capacitors. A Damaged capacitor would not catch fire, it would just heat up and the enventually explode. dumb pricks

[BarneySaysHi]

Well, as far as I'm concerned Diodes are not marked with a C, but with a D. If you look closely on the PCB you can see a load of C's printed on it, not D's.

[googlemyharbl]

Its a diode. I can tell from the polarity band and from seeing quite a few diodes in my time. It would not be marked with a C or a D anyway, because if you know what you are doing, you would not confuse the two.

[cortkatanakx1q]

It's a SMD Tantalum Capacitor. OMG

[latribe]

Sorry. The circuit board is labelled CXX where XX is the number of the Capacitor, C. The polarity band is there because electrolytic capacitors of whatever construction are polarised. You do have to get them the right way around.

[jkerak]

same thing happened to me a while ago. faulty cap, same as here it was part of a power filtering circuit, but it caught fire, and so did a nearby piece of paper, making for a rather large display. fun times.

[fishstixman]

tants are sensitive

[DrMario2007baka]

Whatever you're buying, don't buy chinese sh*t, they get on fire, just like this movie proves. gadbel1 also said that fake capacitor was used - another reason for not buying chinese technology (some, like VIA chipsets, are alright, but capacitors, it's a no-no.)

[markiex]

Do you need a repair quote for that?

[madamerotten]

Was the capacitor in backwards? Or did you overvoltage it? What is the noise from? What is the circuit board's function? What temperatures are you giving? Is that a thermocouple taped to the board?

[gabdel1]

This is a 1000w power supply (48v to 12v, 5v, 3v). The capacitor is in a filter circuit on the 12v output. This is indeed a thermocouple on the board, we were trying to see if we are getting any kind of thermal runaway. The capacitor turned out to be counterfeit, a 16v cap relabeled as a 20v cap.

[robertmoo40]

Should by a Gossenmetrawatt GMC-I industrial or lab SSP, don't have that trouble with fake or faulty parts :)