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Default What cap mfr. to use?



William Sommerwerck wrote:

Also, 50,000 hours 24/7 is only 5.7 years, which is more-or-less what
you'd expect out of a motherboard.


Not from electrolytic caps, which was kind of the point. Even Panasonic
specify only 10k hours for their top of the range electros.


But isn't that at "high" temperatures, or some other extreme operating
condition?


Yes.

Grham