I think more than a few of us are familiar with the mess of bad capacitors that made their way into products throughout the early 00s. I still see this from ti

I think more than a few of us are familiar with the mess of bad capacitors that made their way into products throughout the early 00s. I still see this from time to time, but I remember the first time I encountered it -- I had purchased a $200 SageTV Media Streamer (v1) and it failed a few months out of warranty. I replaced it with a v2 and put the v1 in the basement. Then Google bought SageTV[0] and they stopped producing software/products. Meanwhile, I wanted another TV hooked up. Taking apart the device revealed capacitors that -- even though I had been unfamiliar with the issues -- were obviously bad -- one had leaked all over itself, others were bulging. I hit up ebay, repaired that, and thought about the growing pile of unreliable/broken hardware in a room that I had been putting off salvaging. That weekend, I repaired about ten LCD monitors -- caps in the PSU all around, one old plasma TV, 5 ATX power supplies and two NetGear 1Gbps switches. EVERY single one had varying degrees of damage. All but one power supply was functional again. [0] The product was a TiVo for PCs and was among the best. Google purchased them as an acqui-hire and -- I think -- used portions of the software in their STBs for Fiber. They later released the code open source.