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  • Tom41
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Oct 2005
    • 336
    • England
    #1

    Bad caps irony...

    Has anyone here had experience with 'ironic' bad caps? That is, either a motherboard with venting caps works perfectly, or a board with caps that look 'good' fails to POST etc.

    I'll start with a PC at work... nearly ALL the (GSC) caps have vented, and yet the PC still runs without any problems!
    At the other end of the scale was the PSU on my PC at home. One very slightly bulged Fuhjyuu, and the PC wouldn't get past the POST

    Anyone have similar stories of cap irony?
    You know there's something wrong when you open your PC and it has vented Rubycons...
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    • yanz
      Badcaps Veteran
      • Nov 2004
      • 910
      #2
      Re: Bad caps irony...

      one of my epox 8k3a was full of bulged & leaking GSC arround atx connector and bottom area of the vrm input and it was doing fine until i recap it. that's why i join the forum in 2004 (when only one GSC caps bulging visible) but only start to post in mid 2005

      altough from all epox board i ever get in my hand with GSC craps, it would need to take at least six bulged GSC to make the board south (unstable).
      days are so short when you actually do something..

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        • Topcat
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          • Oct 2003
          • 16956
          • United States
          #3
          Re: Bad caps irony...

          Back in the dark ages (1999 or so) I had a BP6 packed with Junkcon caps that ran over 6 months with visibly failing caps. It did finally become unstable and fail, so the inevitable always prevails with bad caps....
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            • kc8adu
              Super Moderator
              • Nov 2003
              • 8832
              • U.S.A!
              #4
              Re: Bad caps irony...

              wait till you find a bad cap in a cap checker!a friend brought me a dick smith esr meter that died shortly after assembly.
              a cap had shorted.dead givaway as it got hot enough to melt the wrapper and the batteries got hot.

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