On 2018-02-18 13:53:39 +0000, nospam said:

In article ,
RichA wrote:


electrolytic caps, particularly those from the early '00s, can fail,
but that's an entirely different problem (they were defective) and one
that's easily fixed.

Electrolytic caps degrade over time, no matter how good they are.

not significantly (unless defective), but easily replaced if needed, as
i said.

Well... The caps plague came at convenient time in the digitalisation
of home electronics process! : -ppp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
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