Many failed electrolytic caps on PC motherboards and in PC power supplies can be traced to a case of industrial espionage gone wrong. Somebody sole the formula for the caps from a Japanese company and sold it to a competitor. That competitor allegedly cranked out over a billion of the caps and cornered the market with their cheap prices. Unfortunately the formula that was stolen was missing a key ingredient... voila, over a billion capacitors in a zillion PC's... and every one of them is destined to fail. The failure mode is goo oozing out the top of the cap.
---------------------------------------- Modern electrolytics is a different story altogher from traditional electrolytics. My stationary computer failed in the PSU. Sure enougth it was caps. But looking carefully at the errupted caps... _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
