Charles Hill wrote:
> Simon,
> All true, but in our environment, we don't bother. By the time the
> problem appears, the PC is at or near replacement time. Simply not
> cost effective to spend that much on an obsolete computer.
> All the "condensers" I've checked are the old coiled
> conductor/insulator type. But they go bad too. I remember the late
> Gerry Guogen mentioning in a tech session of buying a batch of NOS TC
> contact breaker plates with the soldered condensers. Most were bad as
> the condensers had deteriorated just sitting in the warehouse. Of
> course, this was for decades, not just years.
I have always wondered why we call a capacitor a "condenser" just because it's
on a car.
-The Roxter
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