Date   : Wed, 23 Oct 1991 17:44:26 GMT
From   : ogicse!milton!sumax!polari!rwing!fnx!del@ucsd.edu (Dag Erik Lindberg)
Subject: Re: HELP! MY COMPUTER IS DEAD!

In article <687653259.0@sfbhq.Fidonet.Org> Brice.Fleckenstein@f190.n231.z1.Fidonet.Org
(Brice Fleckenstein) writes:
>in value when overloaded and tend to fail open, Diodes are far more likely to 
>fail open as well).

Depends on the cause of failure of the diode.  If it fails because of an
overvoltage condition, it will likely fail open.  If the cause of failure
is excess current, it will almost always fail *shorted*.

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