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What cap mfr. to use?
May 07, 2009
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Thankfully I have no atomic clocks to worry about.
Yes, I keep an eye on that kind of thing.
Graham
Dust sucks, because we *cannot* see it, so you must have a pretty good eye. ;-)
I *can* see my accumulations of dust though. So I keep my system's sinks clean pretty often as well. On the order of once every other month even.
I would imagine that it was a crappy capacitor, perhaps one of those knock-off Taiwan caps. Sceptre LCD monitors had a rash of crappy electrolytics which they used on the outputs of their switchers a few years ago. Many computer motherboards also used icky caps. The two Sceptre monitors that a friend had crapped out around the same time. I replaced the high stress caps with United Chemicon caps.
For my pulse power amplifier applications, I stick to United Chemicon.
Mark
Which series do you use? U-C make several qualities in radial lead cans.
DaveC
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