At 12:49 AM 4/24/99 +0100, you wrote:
>[11/44 PSU]
> <snip...>
>
>I've had electrolytics in old radios go bad from age, but never in a
>computer (yes, I have had caps in computer PSUs fail, but not shortly
>after switch-on after extended storage). I guess that these capacitors
>are (a) too new to have failed and (b) improvements in capacitor
>design/manufacture has given them a longer life anyway.
I have. The ones in my PDP-12 were leaky enough that they drew too much
current and took out the bridge rectifier. Had to reform them.
>
>-tony
>
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Received on Sat Apr 24 1999 - 09:11:18 BST