Capacitors – The Silent Admin — Musings from a lifetime of computers

Why do Electrolytic Capacitors Fail?

Jim February 7, 2011 Comments Off

Electrolytic Capacitors I wasn’t aware that it was quite as bad as a capacitor plague as wikipedia.org points out; but it really is that bad. The more I started looking… Read more »

Repairing a LCD Monitor

Jim February 5, 2011 Comments Off

I found a 10V 470 uF capacitor that measured about 438uF and the other one was a 16V 470uF 105C that measured 601uF when I eventually removed them from the circuit board. I found identical replacements from an old motherboard and that was it. The 30+ pictures from my smugmug site show and describe the repair during different phases of my repair.