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I’ve had capacitors repaired.

• drewmol 8y ago
  Haha, of course you did - It's always a capacitor![1] These mature cheap reliable mass-produced electrolytic capacitors of which we rarely see fault today, sure had quite the rebellious stage[2] [3]. Interesting, from the announcement on badcaps.net[3]: "Back in April 2002, I had an idea to start a business (actually spinoff of another business) servicing motherboards at component level amid the mass capacitor failures plaguing the PC industry."..."The store boomed from its launch all the way up until about a year ago. Over the last 6 months or so, I have sold very few capacitors. Once my stock depletes, I will be shutting down the Badcaps.net store."
  • jacquesm 8y ago
    That wasn't an accident, but some company trying to cut corners on what was a well-understood manufacturing process.
• honestoHeminway 8y ago
  Did you reposition them? Capacitors are today often part of planne obsolence- you can time there demise pretta acuratly by placing them near a heat source. Two soldered wires later, placed at a cool spot, your capacitor might last long enough to see the board go up in flames for other reasons.