[Premium-Rx] Tantalums again

[Dan Rae]

On 5/24/2012 10:29 AM, Dave Schofield wrote:
> Further to Dan's comments on the strange leads.
I've only seen that on the UK ones, not ever on anything from the US.
>
> In my early days as a TV engineer, my boss told me "never trust a blue 
> tant"...
> Pretty good advice to, they always seem much more prone to fail. Or 
> maybe I've just been unlucky :-)
>
>
I suspect the manufacturing processes were changed at some point Dave.  
I have had plenty of the old tan coloured ones fail, not just the blues, 
but never any newer ones.  I had a theory the bad ones were made by 
Thomson who ended up buying Thales who had bought Racal :^)