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Categories: Capacitors, Product safety scandals, Corporate scandals, Motherboard
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capacitor plague  bad capacitors  Bad caps  Badcaps  Badcaps.net
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The capacitor plague was a problem related to a higher-than-expected failure rate of non-solid aluminium electrolytic capacitors between 1999 and 2007, especially those from some Taiwanese manufacturers, due to faulty electrolyte composition that caused corrosion accompanied by gas generation; this often resulted in rupturing of the case of the capacitor from the build-up of pressure. Wikipedia
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The capacitor plague was a problem related to a higher-than-expected failure rate of non-solid aluminium electrolytic capacitors between 1999 and 2007, especially those from some Taiwanese manufacturers, due to faulty electrolyte composition that caused corrosion accompanied by gas generation; this often resulted in rupturing of the case of the capacitor from the build-up of pressure. Wikipedia
A condition afflicting computer motherboards in which capacitors fail Wikipedia Disambiguation
A high failure rate of electrolytic capacitors produced between 1999 and 2007 Wikidata
Premature failure of an electrolytic capacitor, especially when several are beginning to fail at the same time in a piece of equipment (due, for example, to high demands imposed by the circuit design, such as in a switchmode power supply), necessitating "re-capping" (i.e. replacing many capacitors after disconnecting the power and waiting for lethal charge to dissipate). Wiktionary