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Without looking at the circuit diagram, it's hard to say if it's likely to happen again. It could be a faulty component in my Reef Bot that caused a voltage spike. The tantalum capacitors can be fine if used correctly but they can also be very bad if they get voltage spikes even a tiny bit over their rating. It's also worth noting that when you're designing a circuit with one the rating is not the maximum continuous voltage i.e if the cap is rated @ 16v you can't run it continuously at 16v (else it goes boom). I know some engineers who have made this mistake when designing circuit boards with tantalum caps. Lets hope Reef Kinetics didn't!Thanks for posing. So, do you think this might happen to everyone because of the material choice , or it's just a bad product that you received? Kind of dangerous.