From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:35:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <397c2a4b490f9022deae0c36a19293eb@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4a8deb1e1ff933f593479ee43cf4d12@quintile.net>
> Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life,
> dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most
> electronics dieing of old age.
In the days before I took up electronics as a hobby, valves were
seated in sockets because it was known that the equipment they were
used in would outlive them. Maybe we should recommend easily
replaceable capacitors in modern equipment instead of blindly
accepting that a component of extremely low cost should wreck
expensive machinery beyond repair.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-15 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-15 3:33 erik quanstrom
2011-01-15 4:29 ` lucio
2011-01-15 4:33 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-15 4:48 ` lucio
2011-01-15 4:36 ` Anthony Martin
2011-01-15 9:24 ` Steve Simon
2011-01-15 9:35 ` lucio [this message]
2011-01-19 4:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-01-15 14:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-15 15:08 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-19 6:50 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-01-19 12:09 ` erik quanstrom
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