On 12/06/2016 20:31, "tony duell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> They turn up everywhere. A couple of months back I was upgrading a TRS-80 > Model 4 for a friend. It had a couple of said capacitors which filled my > Large Machine Room with magic smoke... Also found them in HP machines. > Fortunately, they don't do much other damage when they go. They do > not catch fire in my experience. They may blow a fuse or trip the RCD in > the consumer unit if you are unlucky, but nothing worse. Or make a co-worker absolutely lose his shit because a cooling fan blows the smoke forcibly outwards :) > Actually, while we all moan about the original RIFA ones, they have lasted > over 30 years in most cases. I don't think that's too bad. If the replacements > last as long then I won't complain. True, and most of the time I know to check first to see if there are any present and what state they're in - this Apple one is about to go. Monday's was in the monitor of an ICL One-per-desk (aka a Sinclair QL with beefed up innards and redesigned microdrives) and I just forgot to look. -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
