On Jun 23, 2013, at 4:51 PM, James E. Therrault <mjrtas...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Capacitors, (caps), are notorious for having a shortened life in solid state 
> monitors, TVs etc.  It almost seems that they were purposely 
> under-engineered.  Caps are cheap and it will be obvious upon disassembly 
> which ones have failed.

It didn't help that for several years in the early to mid 2000's a case of 
botched industrial espionage resulted in a flood of substandard capacitors in 
the market :

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague>

-- 
Bruce Johnson

"Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai,  PhD

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