So this video is a little dry and goes into very elementary explanations about capacitors. What got me is I did not know it was a recognized thing that there was some problem in 2002 and I had this funny experience at my work around that time. We had been at the time running large visualization clusters on tiled displays. We had a few that were running off of one type of lcd and they failed a lot. Initially we were rmaing them but it got sorta tiresome so we eventually messed around and found it was always just a bad power supply. So we would buy the power supplies and change them out. But one day the guy I worked with was like. Hey you know its always this one capacitor that seems to be failing. So we bought a bunch of those and started replacing them. So we went from buying like 700 dollar lcds (some extras for ones needing to be in transit or when they went out of warranty) to buying power supplies that cost about 100 dollars to buying capacitors that cost like tend cents a piece.
This is also a royal pain if you’re into retro computers and want anything from like 2001-2004, because damn near every single motherboard from those eras need to be recapped, like, without exception. Either they’re dead, or they will be soon.
Super annoying to get a thing you want to play with and the first thing you have to do is replace 20 caps and spend 3 hours doing it before you can even see if it would otherwise even work, lol.