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Default What cap mfr. to use?



Mike Tomlinson wrote:

In article , Dave Platt
writes

One manufacturer was citing a "50,000
hour" lifetime figure on the motherboard carton


Are you sure there isn't a microdot in the small print with the words
"electrolytic capacitors excepted" printed on it?


After the bad caps debacle one manufacturer, it might be Gigabyte, moved
to the OSCON type in which case it may very well be true.

Graham