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Please, no. Manufacturers will use this to force selling us new equipment every 2-3 years. It's a very bad solution.

honestoHeminway 9y ago
Manufactureres force you allready to buy new equipment 2-3years, by placing codensators near heatsources and other nice tricks (including the famous printer counter).
- fapjacks 9y ago
  Hi there, I'm very interested in your comment. Do you have a link where I could read more about the techniques you've discussed as they pertain to forced obsolescence? Thanks!
  - honestoHeminway 9y ago
    I have no direkt link, i just had - lets say a lesson at my university where one the teachers (who shall not be named) mentioned that there is a pretty exact science of statistically averaging the livetime of a capacitator with the heat it experiences during the devices operation. So if you want to extend a devices life, you can desolder some condensators and put them in areas of good Cooling.
    - honestoHeminway 9y ago
      http://jianghai-america.com/uploads/technology/JIANGHAI_Elcap_Lifetime_-_Estimation_AAL.pdf http://jianghai-america.com/uploads/technology/JIANGHAI_Elca... http://www.cde.com/resources/catalogs/AEappGUIDE.pdf http://www.cde.com/resources/catalogs/AEappGUIDE.pdf
- raverbashing 9y ago
  "by placing codensators near heatsources" Oh you mean like every power source is designed today? There are several engineering reasons to do that, they don't do that to spite people And it's called capacitor (in the XXI century at least)
  - atom058 9y ago
    In Sweden, we call them "Kondensatorer", i.e using the old form. For me, this causes quite a lot of jumbled/mixing of words, as my friends and I typically switch randomly between English and Swedish versions of component names.
    - raverbashing 9y ago
      Ah fair enough
    - qb45 9y ago
      Also, even in English condenser mics still refuse to become cap mics.
      - mikeash 9y ago
        Capacitors in automotive ignition systems are still called "condensers" too, for some reason.
    - FeepingCreature 9y ago
      German too.
- c3833174 9y ago
  Not really, you just don't put enough effort in trying to repair them.

Manufactureres force you allready to buy new equipment 2-3years, by placing codensators near heatsources and other nice tricks (including the famous printer counter).

fapjacks 9y ago
Hi there, I'm very interested in your comment. Do you have a link where I could read more about the techniques you've discussed as they pertain to forced obsolescence? Thanks!
- honestoHeminway 9y ago
  I have no direkt link, i just had - lets say a lesson at my university where one the teachers (who shall not be named) mentioned that there is a pretty exact science of statistically averaging the livetime of a capacitator with the heat it experiences during the devices operation. So if you want to extend a devices life, you can desolder some condensators and put them in areas of good Cooling.
  - honestoHeminway 9y ago
    http://jianghai-america.com/uploads/technology/JIANGHAI_Elcap_Lifetime_-_Estimation_AAL.pdf http://jianghai-america.com/uploads/technology/JIANGHAI_Elca... http://www.cde.com/resources/catalogs/AEappGUIDE.pdf http://www.cde.com/resources/catalogs/AEappGUIDE.pdf
raverbashing 9y ago
"by placing codensators near heatsources" Oh you mean like every power source is designed today? There are several engineering reasons to do that, they don't do that to spite people And it's called capacitor (in the XXI century at least)
- atom058 9y ago
  In Sweden, we call them "Kondensatorer", i.e using the old form. For me, this causes quite a lot of jumbled/mixing of words, as my friends and I typically switch randomly between English and Swedish versions of component names.
  - raverbashing 9y ago
    Ah fair enough
  - qb45 9y ago
    Also, even in English condenser mics still refuse to become cap mics.
    - mikeash 9y ago
      Capacitors in automotive ignition systems are still called "condensers" too, for some reason.
  - FeepingCreature 9y ago
    German too.
c3833174 9y ago
Not really, you just don't put enough effort in trying to repair them.