Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 05:34:18 GMT From: "James Sweet" <jamessweetnospamail.com> Subject: Re: Re: Di Cassette
"Malcolm William Mason" <mwm1(delete)nospamedu> wrote in message news:uipsk0p4ejk7m1964b4gehi1rfskosds8cnospamcom... > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:25:01 GMT, "Bill Jackson" > <wjacksonnospamesterdotrr.com> wrote: > > > In a former Saab, a 92 9k, I experienced missing, at first under load, > but i am given to understand that it is more frequent to totally fail > without warning. > If anyone has an explanation it would be interesting. > > Malcolm Mason My guess is it has solid state power components, the usual failure mode of a power transistor is for it to short, which will often cause a catastrophic failure without warning.