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Re: capacitor leakage

At 23:22 5/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
..., degraded dielectrics in
capacitors are usually sensitive to temperature changes. The easiest way to
detect small leakages such as you describe would be to monitor the circuit
current while spraying each capacitor with Freeze Mist....

Ron Ebert

There was a rather grander form of the same technique available to
visiting computer troubleshooters in the long-ago:
One obtained customer approval to shoot off a CO2 fire extinguisher -
then aimed the snow and cold mist at suspect arrays of printed circuit
boards.

Brian Whatcott Altus OK