I wasn't paying that much attention, but the way I remember it was that some major manufacturer of capacitors was producing bad ones for a while. Not so much "c

I wasn't paying that much attention, but the way I remember it was that some major manufacturer of capacitors was producing bad ones for a while. Not so much "cheap knock offs" as more like Takata airbags. The only capacitor manufacturer that comes to mind now is Kemet and their wikipedia page doesn't mention the episode so I don't know.