14 Feb
2010
14 Feb
'10
12:01 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:45:48 -0600
Randy Dawson <rdawson16 at hotmail.com> wrote:
There was some criminal stuff going on with
electrolytes in this era,
AFAIK this is an urban legend. And that legend was about
aluminium
electrolyte capacitors, not tantalum. Most common faild capacitors
where the low ESR types found in the CPU core voltage regulator on
PeeCee mainboards.
There was one chemical manufacturer pinpointed,
that was supplying XR7 or whatever electrolyte to all the manufacturers.
X7R is a
ceramic dielectric. It has nothing to do with electrolyte
capacitors. Even cheap X7R capacitors are far more reliable then
electrolyte capacitors.
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tsch??,
Jochen
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