18 Jan
2011
18 Jan
'11
2:10 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
I fully agree with Tony... replacing electrolytics just because of their
age is a very premature task. Today's SMPS and PC mainboards are another
story where you can literally see how the caps are failing (too much HF
stress and heat).
Christian
Older
equipment should have power supply (and elsewhere) electrolytic
capacitors tested/replaced as the average capacitor life span is only a
couple of thousand hours (2,000 hr). An ESR meter might help here...or
I really cn't beliueve it's that short. 2000 hours is less than 100 days.
Which, given a reaosnable usage period of the equipment (say 8 hours a
dayu on average) would suggest that on average an electrolytic capacitor
would need replacing after 1 year.