“I wish this article had named the capaciter and its manufacturer(s). Capaciters are used in lots of electronic manufacturing, and I have thousands in the warehouse, left over from various jobs.”
If my memory serves me correctly, ALL the electrolytic capacitors were potentially affected at a certain time of manufacture. I think the problem was that there was only ONE source for a chemical used in the manufacture of the caps and that it was contaminated. All manufacturers were affected to some degree. At that time I was working for NCR and had to replace a boatload of IBM motherboards.
PC’s are (for the most part) junk! Consider the hardware as disposable. The hardware will be overtaxed by the changes in software demands in about 2 years time.
Good thing FR has a very simple web interface. Gosh, I can even use a Win98 machine if I need to (or Puppy Linux as I am now).
Let me guess. China?
Thank you for the information. I’m passing it on to my husband. This is just another example of why we should never have allowed any crucial industry to depend on one source in their supply chain. We are a small contract manufacturer of industrial parts for OEMs. I do not believe that we’ve had any complaints related to this, but we use capacitors like popcorn. I’m not even sure that we make a line item for them in our quotes. I’ll have to ask somebody to check our inventory. Would these little devils “leak” if they are not installed anywhere — just sitting in the bin?