[NTLK] [OT] Attention Mac LC Users: Quantum ProDrive ELS Going Rotten Anytime Soon

Randy Glenn randy.glenn at gmail.com
Sun Apr 16 03:40:19 EDT 2017


On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 2:29 AM, Vladislav Korotnev <vladkorotnev at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yup, there are electrolytic caps on that board! (who the hell designed it
> that way must have been thinking of planned obsolence way too ahead)
>
>
Are you sure those are electrolytic? They look like tantalum to me - a type
of capacitor with its own unique, somewhat exothermic mode of failure.

Thanks,

-Randy



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