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The average lifespan of electrolytic capacitors between 1999 and 2007 was much worse than usual, due to poor industrial espionage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by sbierwagen 10y ago
The average lifespan of electrolytic capacitors between 1999 and 2007 was much worse than usual, due to poor industrial espionage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
You could easily get the impression that electrolytics had really lousy lifespans as a result of this.
- woodman 10y agoEven when correctly manufactured they do have crappy lifespans, relative to most other things they share the board with. I wouldn't count on most wet capacitors lasting more than 10 years, even when handled with kid gloves. I've got plenty of things running with capacitors well beyond that age, but they were demoted from production to testing or nice-to-haves.
- nasalgoat 10y agoI work on machines that are usually 20-30 years old if not more and I pretty much have to replace all the capacitors on them due to age. They tend to dry out, crack, or balloon up. Not a single one built after 1999.