17 Jul
2015
17 Jul
'15
2:15 p.m.
That might be a little different -- much more recent - presumably in the
ear of flat screens and PCs where there have been times when
manufacturers got fed bad capacitors for their boards - which then
failed later. IBM replaced a whole series of motherboards in one
organization that I worked at because of that (though those were not
power supply capacitors.)
On 7/17/2015 1:53 PM, Mouse wrote:
I do find this
witch-hunt against capacitors to be curious, given how
few I've found to have failed. I suspect a lot of it comes from
audiophools who think this is the way to fix anything...
Perhaps. But not all of it, certainly. I'm currently four for four
fixing dead flatscreens by re-capping their power supplies; I imagine
others have similar experiences. It's not a huge stretch to imagine
that other power supplies may have similar issues; even if it turns out
to not be the case, there is probably at least a little "can't hurt
anything, right?" running around.
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