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4.3 Traps and Bad Columns

The chip has a number of cosmetic defects. It has hot columns at 603-604, 1143-1144, 1250-1251, and 1638-1639. It also has a number of bad traps between columns 250 and 300, but this falls in the vignetted area and is no real loss.