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Showerthought: I just read that over 50% of e-waste board failures are from bad caps, not chips
Found that in a trade journal survey from last quarter. Makes me wonder if we're all focusing too much on sourcing ICs when we should just bulk order quality capacitors first.
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aaron1974mo ago
Man, that hits close to home. I just spent a whole weekend trying to fix an old amp, swapping out chips and checking traces. Turns out it was a single bulging capacitor the whole time, a cheap little thing I could have replaced in two minutes. Felt like a real genius after that one.
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