On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:54:48 -0500, kenneth l wright
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Change all those little tear drop bypass caps connected to the shorted line.
Won't hurt to replace them all, might save a future short. Ken

I agree. I saw a *lot* of shorted tantalums when I was troubleshooting
multilayer minicomputer PCBs during the 80s.

Henry Kolesnik wrote:

Sometime ago I think I recall someone posted or wrote an article on a neat
way to isolate a shorted component on a pcb using common test eqpt but I
can't recall the methodology. I'm trying to find a shorted component on a
Wavetek 188-S-1257 signal generator. The B+ line reads about 0.4 ohms and
I'm not having much luck disconnecting componets. I don't have a schematic
and my eyes ain't what they used to be for tracing and I want to minimize
the unsoldering. Does anyone recall the article or have a good way?
tnx
hank wd5jfr


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