Capacitor plague

[Giampy]

Did you already know this story that still affects our electronic equipments?

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

[mouser]

I think any of you without samsung monitors must be safe, since every single samsung monitor i own has suffered catastrophic capacitor death -- so samsung must have bought out most of the supply of those bad caps 

[40hz]

TTBOMK it's run its course. If you have a older monitor, which hasn't failed to date, you should be ok. Anything that was going to die early because of bad capacitors most likely already has.

Yay!  

[Cuffy]

Bad capacitors is old news.
I was trained as an electronics tech by the U.S. military in 1953.
Vacuum tubes and paper caps were the order of the day then and you could usually spot a bad cap visually because the oil in the electrolyte drained down and soaked the cardboard. They always seemed to be soldered to the board with a teaspoon of solder?
We're a long ways down the road now and caps are prettier at least, but I have no idea if the failure rate has improved in relation to the time?

http://www.antiqueradio.org/recap.htm

[Edvard]

I have successfully revived two flat-screen monitors by re-capping.  All it takes a little finesse with screwdriver and soldering iron.  Cheap too, because I used recycled caps from old stereos.  The "Elmers" will tell you don't do that, but I've done it enough times to spot a bad cap in the first place, and my success rate speaks for itself.