HP 2113B service manual / schematics

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Peter Brown wrote:

> The machine had run just fine for about two hours before the cap decided to
> break.  This has happened to me before on another piece of ageing electronics
> - it is probably worth checking all old electronics for this type of
> surpressor capacitor and replacing them BEFORE turning the equipment on.

Glad no real harm was done!

The flip-side of being prepared:

Under carefully controlled laboratory environmental conditions
of temperature, humidity, illumination and other parameters
the organism does what it damn well pleases.