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What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002?

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interesting video about the swollen cap scandal? I haven't seen this before so i certainly learned some stuff i did not know
 
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Was recommended and watched this some time ago. Pretty good video on the subject. My personal experience is that it seems pretty much everything that's electrolytic from the 2000's (up until 2008 or so) invariably fails prematurely, even if well taken care of. My brother has an Xbox 360 he got in 2008, one of the earlier revision Jasper boards (which have a native HDMI out), helped him open it to clean the other day as it was quite loud and the console hadn't been used in a few years... pretty much every single electrolytic on the board had stuffed up, one even opened at the top. No clue how the console was still working, spent the afternoon recapping it with him. I'm glad Sony opted for all solid-state caps on the PS2 and PS3 right from the first revision.
 
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This paid for a lot of my overtime a decade ago, swapping motherboard after motherboard. It was a never ending job.
 
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I remember the exploding power supplies, the random errors from caps on motherboards. Some wouldn't last a year.
 
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