Sunday, October 03, 2010

Example of bad capacitors from a few years ago

A few years back, we bought a bunch of GeForce 6200LE PCIe video cards for various uses in servers/desktops.  I liked them at the time because they are fanless (one less moving part to break).  However, in the last 2 years, we've had a lot of them fail due to bad capacitors

And when one of these capacitors "pops", it sounds like a small firecracker going off in the room.  Very noticeable at the time. Reminds me of the old miniature pop-caps or the small paper bags of a single grain of gunpowder (or flash powder?) mixed in with a few rocks (the size of a pea) that you could throw at hard surfaces and it would make a popping noise.





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