Capacitors are essential components in electronics, primarily used for bypassing and decoupling. Depending on the capacitor type and its application, it is prone to aging and failure. Detecting a ...

Australia’s Electronics News (www.electronicsnews.com.au) recently reported that capacitor failure was partially to blame for the major railway system delays in Sydney on April 12, 2011. According to ...

Poorly designed PCBs and enclosures that slowly cook the electrolytic capacitors within are a common failure scenario in ...

Anyone who works with older electronic equipment will before long learn to spot Rifa capacitors, a distinctive yellow-translucent component often used in mains filters, that is notorious for failures.

From 2003 to 2005 Dell shipped 11.8 million PCs with a known defect but chose not to fully disclose the situation to all of its customers. The inside details of its management decisions, unsealed ...

For the multitude of you that have already experienced capacitor death on an abit board, how long does it take to go from initial leak to dead board? I've got a ~2yr old KT7-raid that, to date, has ...