On Sat, 7/13/13, J.S. Garrison <garriso...@yahoo.com> wrote: Subject: Re: Are my 2 Powerbook 100 only for the trashcan? To: "vintage-macs@googlegroups.com" <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> Date: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 9:15 AM So when a member recently told me upon my return to the lists that Caps were a big topic, I can see he was right. Amazingthat these components could be so fragile. Why not the others? You almost never hear of resistors or LSICs or coils needing replacement.It's almost as if caps throughout history were very poorly designed or made. Jeff Capacitor plague. <Google that
It involves industrial espionage, a stolen yet substandard formula for capacitor electrolyte and millions upon millions of counterfeit capacitors flooding the electronics industry in the 1990's and early 00's. That's why you see some equipment that has 100% good caps after all these years, some with 100% bad caps and some with at least one but less than all bad. I've seen many PC motherboards where only one specific size/brand of capacitors have gone bad. Nobody could tell the genuine name brand caps from the knockoffs without closely examining them side by side, which nobody was doing while the bad caps were going into computers. They were good enough to nearly always last until years after the hardware was out of warranty. -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
