Barrie,
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> When I worked for Marconi in the UK building defense systems we always
> "soaked" our computers for not less than 100 hours - usually 250. If no
> capacitors soured during this run we reckoned they would work forever (but
> we had triple standbys!!)
>
Not any more -- just google capacitors and motherboard. It appears
that many electrolytic capacitors have a lifetime that is far too
short.
Simon
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