[time-nuts] 5070B once more.... (actually 5370A fans)

[Mark Sims]

Many failed electrolytic caps on PC motherboards and in PC power supplies can be traced to a case of industrial espionage gone wrong.  Somebody sole the formula for the caps from a Japanese company and sold it to a competitor.  That competitor allegedly cranked out over a billion of the caps and cornered the market with their cheap prices.  Unfortunately the formula that was stolen was missing a key ingredient...  voila,  over a billion capacitors in a zillion PC's...  and every one of them is destined to fail.  The failure mode is goo oozing out the top of the cap.

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Modern electrolytics is a different story altogher from traditional electrolytics. My stationary computer failed in the PSU. Sure enougth it was caps. But looking carefully at the errupted caps...
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