[sdiy] "Boutique" capacitors

[harrybissell]

And note that electrolytics have 1/2 the service live for every 10 degrees
Celsius temperature rise.  Most lytics have only a 2000 hr. life specified
at the
rated temperature.  Switch mode power supplies make their life worse !

H^) harry

"Roy J. Tellason" wrote:

> On Friday 04 February 2005 10:59 pm, Heitor Alves wrote:
> > I've been reparing computers for about 10 years... since the Pentium 2
> > hit the market, its very usual to motherboards have theyr 2200uF caps
> > blown... not only from VIA FDI but even from Intel boards. 80% of the
> > mainboards problems derive from that problem... even my own board had
> > 2 times some caps substituted with sucsess... its a market thing i
> > believe... no mainboard is made to live for more than 1.5 to 2 years
> > of intense use (24hrs on).
>
> Uh oh.    :-(
>
> Looking at my uptime on this machine,  it's sitting at 184 days plus.