roothorick
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Ever since the capacitor plague, manufacturers in the computer world have been getting away from electrolytic capacitors any way they can. Recently there have been a LOT of PC motherboards with different-looking capacitors. They're in an unvented aluminum can without a wrapper, a lot like you find really tiny SMT electrolytic capacitors in, except these guys are through-hole, and bigger -- a LOT bigger, many around 1/2" in diameter. Mouser seems to call them "Aluminum Oragnic Polymer Capacitors".
They probably haven't been around long enough to have much of a reliability record, but they've gotta be more reliable than the volatile electrolytics we're using now. Has anyone tried them on monitor chassis? Looking at what's available on Mouser, I'm not sure if they come in all the right values, but I thought I'd bring it up.
They probably haven't been around long enough to have much of a reliability record, but they've gotta be more reliable than the volatile electrolytics we're using now. Has anyone tried them on monitor chassis? Looking at what's available on Mouser, I'm not sure if they come in all the right values, but I thought I'd bring it up.
