"Lostgallifreyan" wrote in message
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"Frank S" wrote in
:

Old age isn't a mechanism, but is a cause for caps to go bad old age =
drying, drying = dieing


I agree. Was just saying that length of time is like the length of a piece
of
string. Like someone else here said, some electrolytic caps work fine in
gear
tens of years old. Valve/tube gear even, where you have enough heat to
accerate drying. It sort of suggests that looking at lengths of time is
missing plenty, there's a lot of difference between electrolytics, they're
not at all consistent.

And there's how hard the user pushes them as regards the voltage and
temperature
ratings.