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Originally Posted by 3o3
until first i heard some really weird crackle-noise almost like distortion and it just got worse and worse - 5 seconds later a smell of burning electronics - and then smoke, not much like in a hollywood-movie but there was grey-ish smoke
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Destroyed cap. The cracling was probably due weakening capasitance ("rippling") which gradually led to a short circuit of the cap (quite rare, but hapens from time to time). The board was probably oxidised which led to this behaviour.