Date   : Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:30:37 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: eBay... sigh

Mark McDougall wrote:
> And here I was thinking only the _buyers_ on eBay were stupid...
> 
> Some genius selling a BBC plugged it in, and when it went 'pop' after 30s 
> and black smoke came out, decided to cut the power cord off!!!

although the smoke's normally white when it's a capacitor failure, so it 
sounds like something shorted and burned quite nicely - quite possibly with 
PCB damage :-)

At least it's only the power cord, I suppose, and they didn't take a sledge 
hammer to the thing.

cheers

Jules