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 ...

They should have at least sacrifice one capacitor, testing its polarities before soldering the whole roll of capacitors on the motherboards... Because if one is wrong polarity meaning the whole roll ...

It appears that the firmware update is enough to cause AirPort Base Stations that may be due to fail to give out completely. (See previous.) Since our original post, we have received numerous followup ...

A rather silly oversight from ASUS could be causing peoples' $599.99 ROG Maximus Z690 Hero DDR5 motherboards to burn up according to an analysis by Buildzoid, who runs the YouTube channel 'Actually ...

Anyone who pokes around old electronics knows that age is not kind to capacitors. If you’ve got a gadget with a few decades on the clock, there’s an excellent chance that some of its capacitors are ...

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 ...