* Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> [101228 00:28]: > Paul I get the feeling you've read a lot of forums and magazines, and > know some people who might know their stuff, but that you personally > don't really have any experience as a PC/server hardware tech. Is this > an accurate assessment?
I am not a technician; I am an engineer. My experience includes electronic design. But this is not a question of my credentials. As a trip to the library would verify, the capacitor problem was front-page news and the subject of feature articles in respected professional publications such as Electronic Design, Electronic Engineering Times, and EDN. Furthermore, the limited life of electrolytics is well-known in industry. A typical Sprague data sheet from the 1970's lists the shelf life of a particular electrolytic as two or three years; and the service life as five years. Accordingly, in the petrochemical industry, spare electronic modules for critical machinery -- such as the governor for a large steam turbine -- were stored in special racks which kept them powered up continuously. But enough of this; the thread has gotten far off-topic. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101228012435.gb22...@rlharris.org
