On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Tony Smith <ajsmith@beagle.com.au> wrote:

> For a more extreme example, Google 'capacitor plague' or 'motherboard
> capacitors'.  That's still happening, btw, power supplies (PC, set-tops
> boxes, PVRs etc) are full of exploding capacitors.  Odds are any cheap
> low-ESR caps will fail in a couple of years.
>

Yep, I have a Dell SX270 with a blown up cap on the mother board, and
another one same with the PSU (those have external PSU which is well know
'exploding' when you plug it to the mains without first pluging to the
computer).

Tamas
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