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Finding Bad Electrolytic Capacitors

December 2, 2014 Admin 3 Comments Repair, Troubleshooting

As many of you may already know, electrolytic capacitors are one of the more common failures on electronic circuit boards. They have a hard life filtering all of the AC noise out of the DC voltage lines on the PCB. Over time they degrade and eventually the equivalent series resistance or ESR becomes too high […]

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