Empirical Experience: Good and Bad Electrolytic Capacitors

[Josh Glover]

Quoth Rob Funk (Sun 2004-06-06 04:03:28PM -0400):

> Jim wrote:
>
> > I just measured some caps salvaged from dead motherboards.
> > Many of the caps were bad, with only a few percent to about
> > twenty percent of their nominal value.  A couple had half
> > of their nominal value.  All of the bad caps had bulged
> > tops.  All of the good caps had flat tops.
> 
> Any idea how they get bulged?

Sometimes the truth really *is* stranger than fiction:

http://www.badcaps.net/causes/

-- 
Josh Glover

Gentoo Developer (http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmglov/)
Tokyo Linux Users Group Listmaster (http://www.tlug.jp/)

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