[c-nsp] Multiple power supply failures. Advise needed

[Mark Kent]

>> Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_whiskers and Google for
>> "zinc whiskers".

Or, just as useful to you, check out new-ish research results:

  http://blogs.physicstoday.org/update/2009/05/how-tin-whiskers-grow.html

Note that it is in-plane strain *gradients* that lead to the whisker
growth.  If you were previously working on the strains themselves then
this may be the big break you were looking for.

-mark