En/na VDR User ha escrit: > Yeah, I know how to tell if a capacitor is bad, went to college for > electronic engineering. In all my years of working with electronics I > have never seen a capacitor blow because a device was left on for a > long period of time and then turned off. Yes, those were two unrelated problem, and, no, a capacitor won't blow, but as it degrades (due to excessive heat, bad quality or simply a borderline design), it will go on working while the equipment is switched on, but if you turn it off it won't work when you switch it back on. >I'd recommend buying better > equipment if you're having a problem with (cheap) parts failing. Well, usually you don't have a choice on the components used, only on the final product, and the problem with bad capacitors in motherboards is spread among many top tier vendors, so it's not a problem of cheap components. Besides, there are no-name capacitors sold as brand name ones. And even expensive products eventually fail. Bye -- Luca _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
