It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden pop, a gruesome spill, or sometimes a burst of flames. And it was allegedly ...

These aluminum electrolytic capacitors are common residents on circuit boards. We may have cut one open to satisfy our curiosity of what’s inside, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we ...

Hiding new capacitors inside of the old ones. As you’d expect for a machine of this age, many of the original components were way out of spec. Naturally the capacitors were shot, but even the ...

CRN has seen AIT’s brief against Dell and what follows is a run-down of all the things Dell allegedly did very, very wrong in the OptiPlex capacitor debacle. What led to Dell’s capacitor woes?

Capacitors are a circuitry tool ... and assisted bicycles. Inside these rechargeable batteries, ions are passed from one side to another to spend the charge, then reversed in order to recharge.