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The early 2000s were a horrorshow as far as capacitors were concerned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_p
by Laforet 11y ago
The early 2000s were a horrorshow as far as capacitors were concerned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
- csours 11y agoSo that's why the ELO monitor power supplies kept dying...
- coldpie 11y agoWow, my friend's TV just failed. We cracked it open this past weekend and we found a busted cap that looks just like those. Manufacture date would be mid-2000s, probably 2006-ish. I wonder if they were from one of those bad batches. Crazy coincidence to learn about this now. Edit: Hm, maybe not: """With a typically shortened life span of about 1.5 to 3 years for the failing capacitors, from mid-2003 up to mid-2006, the last of the bad capacitors should have failed by 2007. Commentators on the Internet often predicted the year 2007 would be the end point for "bad capacitors"."""