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Subject:Re: Could 5 years of VS be over? :-)
From:Doktor Tim
Date:Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:52:35 -0700

At 08:08 PM 09/10/2003, you wrote:

>So... check those solder joints carefully  - I don't know how I missed this
>the first time.

Use a 10x hand glass to see many cracks otherwise unseen. Note that heat
stress is many times caused by resistance far elsewhere in the circuit,
like a corroded ground wire terminal. Many new ECU's get fried in short
time by the short elsewhere that is the root of the failure.

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