9 Jan
2005
9 Jan
'05
7:06 p.m.
At 12:25 PM 1/9/2005 -0600, you wrote: Many years ago I had a family that bought a little electronic toy that had stopped working. They bought it on vacation and took it on the plane with them when they came home. Commercial airplanes fly 30,000-35,000 feet. The cabin is pressurized at 8,000 feet. When I opened the game I found one of the electrolytic capacitors had popped the can completely off.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
I was bemused the other day to see specifications for operating altitude
- up to 50,000 ft. if I recall - on the specs for a motherboard the other
day. What, are the sealed capacitors gonna blow if the pressure's too low?