Capacitors are an inexpensive little component on a PC motherboard, but they can be a costly headache for manufacturers when a whole bunch of them go bad. Last week, Dell announced it was going to ...

When I worked with the robotic systems at the General Motors Oshawa Truck Plant, I was told by one of the engineers that there was an open capacitor on the motherboard of a robot controller. I told ...

HD Electric Co.'s Cap Check line of capacitor testers are designed to identify internal problems with a capacitor or capacitor bank and have proven to be a valuable asset in maintaining both ...

One of my depts has about 6 Dell GX270 towers and 2 of them had motherboards die due to bad caps. Dell replaced them free despite them being out of warranty. But that offer expired some time ago. Now ...

Performance problems with the company’s GX270 and GX280 Optiplex computers were specifically named as part of the company’s anticipated failure to meet its third-quarter revenue forecast. Dell ...

Capacitor manufacturers face a choice between dropping in a lookalike or rebuilding capacitor around what modern systems now ...

Capacitors are a crucial component of any electrical circuit, and every engineer should know how they work and when to use them. But as with every electronic component, there’s a lot to understand ...

HDE's Cap Check line of capacitor testers is designed to identify internal problems with a capacitor or capacitor bank and have proven to be a valuable asset in maintaining both pole-mounted and ...