Capacitor plague – Wikipedia
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Capacitor plague – Wikipedia
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#2Huh, I guess this might explain why several capacitors on my video card failed around 2007.
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#3This happened to me on a very popular brand of motherboard at the time. Now I like it when I see Nichicon capacitors on the product description.
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#4I remember getting replacement capacitors for a motherboard I bought during that time, fortunately I never had to use them.
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#5Almost every one of my Samsung Monitors I bought between 2000 and 2007 has experienced this problem. I went thru and replaced them and now my 17 year old 19 inch monitors work like a charm.
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#6A similar phenomenon is that of swollen lithium ion batteries: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=swollen+battery
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#7Audio equipment got hit by this too. I scored a very nice surround receiver and speaker set this way; someone had put it on the curb, so I took it home for examination, and $20 in replacement caps later it was good to go. Lasted me years, until an evil-minded cat threw up in it.
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#8A similar phenomenon is that of swollen lithium ion batteries: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=swollen+battery
Does this phenomenon have an identified timespan like the capacitor plague? Is it over now?
When Android was a new thing, the swollen battery was one of the many things wrong with my G1 phone. Haven't encountered it on any device since then, fortunately.
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#9A similar phenomenon is that of swollen lithium ion batteries: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=swollen+battery
A victim here. My 2007 MacBook Pro started to swell on the bottom after a couple of years, didn't think much of it, it was a tiny bump at first, but then it almost doubled in thickness so I replaced it with a cheap Chinese knockoff (was broke at the time due to starting a startup), and the same thing happened in about a year. Lesson learned.
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#10Almost every one of my Samsung Monitors I bought between 2000 and 2007 has experienced this problem. I went thru and replaced them and now my 17 year old 19 inch monitors work like a charm.
I will never get this lucky charm obsession with miniature online success stories.