Re: Soldering bypass caps to QFP possible?

Joel Koltner wrote:
"Terry Given" <my_name@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1201478479.335481@xxxxxxxxxx

About 1km away (across the road from the company our former R&D mgr and senior engineers set up) lightning hit a ground-mounted transformer, and made a hell of a mess. the resulting EMP snotted about a dozen ethernet cards


I guess an isolation transformer that's all of a couple cm on a side doesn't hold up real well against, 100kV...


The turret punch, being customised about a decade earlier by nobody knows who, was essentially unfixable.


That's when you're supposed to find some savvy high-school or college kid, hire them as an intern for the summer and tell them, "See that machine there? Make it work again!"


oddly enough, nobody got fired.


It probably would have been impossible to prove just how much less damage would have been done if the fiber links had already been in place.

SIMILAR THINGS HAPPENED AFTER THE FIBER LINK - NO DAMAGE. oops, sorry about shouting :)

Cheers
Terry
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