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Reminds me of the now-infamous "capacitor plague" [1] of 1999-2007 that keeps cropping up in electronics repair. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_pl
by mschuster91 1y ago
Reminds me of the now-infamous "capacitor plague" [1] of 1999-2007 that keeps cropping up in electronics repair.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
- gus_massa 1y agoI guess you got downvoted because the connection is not obvious. The relevant paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Implications_of_industrial_espionage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Implications_... is > [...] A materials scientist working for Rubycon in Japan left the company, taking the secret water-based electrolyte formula for Rubycon's ZA and ZL series capacitors, and began working for a Chinese company. The scientist then developed a copy of this electrolyte. Then, some staff members who defected from the Chinese company copied an incomplete version of the formula and began to market it to many of the aluminium electrolytic manufacturers in Taiwan [...]
- sgarland 1y agoTIL! The only time (knock on wood) I ever had a motherboard go bad was an MSI from around 2002, due to a blown capacitor. To their credit, MSI had great support at the time, and sent me a new one after I sent a photo of the blown capacitor.
- voxadam 1y agoAsianometry has an interesting video on the topic titled What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002? [1] [1] https://youtu.be/rSpzAVpnXo4 https://youtu.be/rSpzAVpnXo4