For how long do capacitors, resistors, transistors and chips work?
(what is their lifetime)

"Orange" wrote in message
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For how long do capacitors, resistors, transistors and chips work?
(what is their lifetime)


It depends on too many things, that's like asking us how long mammals live.

"James Sweet" wrote:
"Orange" wrote in message
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For how long do capacitors, resistors, transistors and chips work?
(what is their lifetime)


It depends on too many things, that's like asking us how long mammals live.

How long mammals live is a far simpler question - about a billion
heartbeats. Electronic components are a whole lot more varied than
mammals. As a ballpark range - a few thousand hours to hundreds of
thousands of hours.


Tim
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The .sig is dead.

I know what you are trying to get at, but the question is very
ambigious (non defined).

Different types of components have specific minimum and maximum
temperature and power ratings. Their life span is dependend entirely
on the quality of manufacturing (most of the time it is very good),
environmental temperature, power drive through the components,
humidity, air circulation, physical shock (banging, dropping,
mis-handling), and frequency of use, just to mention a few easy ones I
can think of.

Most consumer and industrial products, unless otherwise stated by the
manufacture, are designed to last with minimal or no repair service,
for about 5 to 7 years.

Jerry Greenberg
http://www.zoom-one.com

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Orange wrote in message . ..
For how long do capacitors, resistors, transistors and chips work?
(what is their lifetime)