...or might fail through any number of other failure mechanisms.
Which is a very gentle way of saying it could flame out big time or more likely explode, damaging the buss work and causing further chaos!!
I've seen in person the end result of this, it's not pretty!!
Somewhere here on ECN (I think it was the Photos or Violation forums..) there was a picture of what that end result looked like.
(IIRC the thread was titled "I wonder what he's thinking?")
