[jan-jaap]

I was building a mini-DIN8 to RJ45 serial adapter cable to connect systems using those (Indy, Indigo2 ...) to my Cyclades console server yesterday. Used my Challenge S to try out the finished product and after a couple of seconds realized the smell wasn't good. First I thought I screwed up my cable, but it blew a tantalum cap between the GIO sockets on the mainboard:

   

Took it to work this morning (I took this photo in the lab). Amazingly we still had some of those (10µ 25V) in a box of old junk so if I have some time this afternoon I'll replace it.

The system never stopped working by the way.