From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:33:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <796a55f374dd11c94b790c79788ee171@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <849143e8da4c35a62e4988e7dc3e521e@proxima.alt.za>
On Fri Jan 14 23:29:27 EST 2011, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > oh, and yes. when pulling the old motherboard i noticed
> > about 2/3 of the caps are dripping.
>
> I wonder how that happened? Every hardware problem I have diagnosed
> and occasionally fixed in the last few years, from motherboards to CRT
> monitors to external power supplies (mains voltage converters) has
> boiled down to one or more 10μF electrolytics packing up. How many
> faulty capacitors were manufactured and deployed? By whom?
> Intentionally?
these are 6.6v 1800µF caps. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-15 4:33 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 [this message]
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
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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