On 15 Jan 2011, at 9:35 am, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life,
dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most
electronics dieing of old age.
In the days before I took up electronics as a hobby, valves were
seated in sockets because it was known that the equipment they were
used in would outlive them. Maybe we should recommend easily
replaceable capacitors in modern equipment instead of blindly
accepting that a component of extremely low cost should wreck
expensive machinery beyond repair.
Cheap caps don't last, expensive ones do. No-one's going to put cheap
caps in sockets, it defeats the point of using cheap ones. Cap
replacement is still possible if you have some skill with a soldering
iron, or see http://badcaps.net/ . That said, adequate caps are often
larger than cheap ones.
