From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:51:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6679A894-2D21-47B5-88C3-5695D6DE0FCE@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <397c2a4b490f9022deae0c36a19293eb@proxima.alt.za>
On 15 Jan 2011, at 9:35 am, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
>> 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.
Cheap caps don't last, expensive ones do. No-one's going to put cheap
caps in sockets, it defeats the point of using cheap ones. Cap
replacement is still possible if you have some skill with a soldering
iron, or see http://badcaps.net/ . That said, adequate caps are often
larger than cheap ones.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-19 4:51 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
2011-01-19 4:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
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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