Capacitor rules...

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[Daniel70]

John Robertson wrote on 8/7/24 4:44 pm:

On 2024/07/05 9:32 p.m., vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
Capacitors seem to be the electronic component most likely to fail.
My late EE\'64 (and before that submariner) uncle used to tap them
with the back of his screwdriver to find which one failed. Most
often, they were what was wrong.

I tap electronic tubes to see if they are good, but you say he tapped
capacitors? Electrolytics I guess, might show issues when tapped,
like poor internal connections.

Interesting hadn\'t really thought of that as a test for caps...

John :-#)#

I\'d think tapping Capacitors might show up any dry solder joints used to
connect the Caps into the circuit.
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Daniel