Replacing capacitors with leads

[Almighty1]

I have a question, this is the daughter board on my PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 450ATX Computer Power Supply where there are 2 x 50v 1uF capacitors that sits above a chip on the board which results in the leads being exposed. When I recap, do I need to trim the leads to the exact length since I read in another post here that the length of the cap's lead actually effects the electrical properties or does it really matter?

[c_hegge]

Re: Replacing capacitors with leads

The effect on the caps electrical specifications will be negligible. I wouldn't get to picky about the length.

[Pentium4]

Re: Replacing capacitors with leads

It only matters where ESR is critical, like PSU filtering caps, VRM, etc. For that application, it won't affect it

[Almighty1]

Re: Replacing capacitors with leads

Thanks everyone for the replies! I still wonder what the daughterboard is used for. C208 and C302 seems to have leads above the board too as the cap is sitting at a angle to prevent hitting something else like the primary cap and the transformer on the main PCB even though my replacement caps are 2mm shorter than the originals. I should probably try seating it all the way down and see if it hits anything, if it does, then just resolder it with a little more lead so it can sit in a angle before cutting the leads.