From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <397c2a4b490f9022deae0c36a19293eb@proxima.alt.za> References: <397c2a4b490f9022deae0c36a19293eb@proxima.alt.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6679A894-2D21-47B5-88C3-5695D6DE0FCE@fastmail.fm> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ethan Grammatikidis Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:51:14 +0000 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9f0aeb22-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.