capacitor

As I just discovered this morning, the Exabyte 8505 tape drive (and likely others in this series such as 8500, 8200, 8205, 8700, 8705) are affected by the leaky SMD capacitor plague. These drives have a vertically mounted power converter section which naturally has leaky capacitors dumping...

Discord user CJ posted a list there of capacitor series that were found to be leaking, some already mentioned on the badcaps forums, and agreed to have it posted there. Feel free to add more as you find them. Chemi-con - LXF, SXE, SXF, SXG, TXF Elna - RC2S, RC3S, RSE, RSG, RSH NIC Components...

I noticed something with my 12" iBook G4 that I recently picked up. It would keep forgetting the time and date every time I remove the battery. PRAM reset didn't resolve the issue. I discovered that none of the iBooks and the 12" PowerBooks have PRAM batteries. Those have PRAM capacitors...