[sdiy] "Boutique" capacitors

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe Batz Goodfortune, from writings of Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at
12:05:01PM +1030:
> A while back there was a story about how some big Taiwanese cap maker 
> thought they hit the mother-load when they "Acquired" the top secret 
> formula for the dielectric used in some "Top Brand" low ESR Japanese 
> Electros. They went into production with them, offered them cheaper to 
> mother board manufacturers etc, and several months later, all these high 
> end computers were mysteriously dying. And some of these boards were the 
> REALLY expensive ones.

Funny that you should mention this at this time. :-) A few years ago,
I purchased a a Mainboard motherboard, made by Elitegroup Computer
Systems Co., Ltd.  in Taiwan.  It sat on a shelf until the other day,
when the motherboard in one of my systems expired (another Mainboard,
although a different, and slightly older, model).

Anyway, after putting the "new" motherboard in the chassis, and
powering it up, the power supply began cycling, then I smelled
something burning.  It turns out that ten out of twelve electrolytic
caps had blown up (the tops of the caps had expanded).

The capacitors are 2,200uF and marked with G-LUXON 0117 (M).

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