Hi All, I'm Stan

I'm from Poland, and have 20 years' experience in electronics and IT.

First learned about the exploding capacitors the hard way, by inspecting my own failing Shuttle AK31 motherboard back in 2003 IIRC. I quickly learned that my case is by no means isolated, and have since been on the lookout for suspicious-looking caps inside various equipment brought in for repair as a first diagnosis step

I stumbled upon this site while searching for some ideas about DELL SX270, of which I have a dozen or so in my current workplace (as production...