{"id":1257,"date":"2025-03-20T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/20\/the-electrolytic-capacitor-plague\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:58","slug":"the-electrolytic-capacitor-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/20\/the-electrolytic-capacitor-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electrolytic Capacitor Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSpzAVpnXo4?si=__xt_GH2yt26MEPO?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b> So, what caused it? Maybe a variety of factors? Perhaps different factors explain different circuit failures? The video, for example, focuses on CPUs that drew a lot of current and got real hot. OK, but we also see failing electrolytics in small, very low current Sony receivers. <\/b><\/p>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Hack-A-Day has a good post about this:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2025\/03\/18\/the-capacitor-plague-of-the-early-2000s\/#more-767835\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2025\/03\/18\/the-capacitor-plague-of-the-early-2000s\/#more-767835 <\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The Hack-A-Day comments are also (mostly) good. I agree with the fellow who said he never heard anyone call electrolytic capacitors &#8220;E capacitors.&#8221; Me neither. <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what caused it? Maybe a variety of factors? Perhaps different factors explain different circuit failures? The video, for example, focuses on CPUs that drew a lot of current and got real hot. OK, but we also see failing electrolytics in small, very low current Sony receivers. Hack-A-Day has a good post about this: https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2025\/03\/18\/the-capacitor-plague-of-the-early-2000s\/#more-767835 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/20\/the-electrolytic-capacitor-plague\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Electrolytic Capacitor Plague&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrolytic-capacitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11116,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/11116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}