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Minelab FT 16000 gold detector
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<blockquote data-quote="The Big B1" data-source="post: 425695" data-attributes="member: 13045"><p>Hard to tell if it was a ceramic or tantalum cap from this angle, but my money is on tantalum, they are very intolerant of reverse polarity and overvoltage/ripple current.</p><p>Any chance the batteries were installed incorrectly? Those old machines wouldn't have had much if any protection against reverse polarity so inserting them the wrong way would certainly cause a tantalum to blow like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Big B1, post: 425695, member: 13045"] Hard to tell if it was a ceramic or tantalum cap from this angle, but my money is on tantalum, they are very intolerant of reverse polarity and overvoltage/ripple current. Any chance the batteries were installed incorrectly? Those old machines wouldn't have had much if any protection against reverse polarity so inserting them the wrong way would certainly cause a tantalum to blow like that. [/QUOTE]
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