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carlosff2:
What causes more defects in old electronic devices (the 90's and 2000's) when they remain stored for a long time without being used are the electrolytic capacitors? many people report that after a while stopped when turning them on there is no sign of life
Black Phoenix:
For me is Caps. Normally with gaming consoles, where I have experience. The OG Xbox and in some way the GBA suffer from capacitor degradation, mostly because of that era of defective caps - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
I've probably recaped already 8 OG Xbox motherboards with that problem and 3 PSUs for the same console.
carlosff2:
Unfortunately I don't have control of the weather conditions, do you have any tips to keep the electrolytic capacitors good even though they are electrolytic capacitors from electronic devices from the early 90's and early mid 2000's? i have cartridge consoles, crt tvs, ps2 slim
Simon:
caps wear out end of, eventually they have to be replaced, they are the most common failure.
ebastler:
We have had a user here who posted under several different accounts -- classicsamus87, robertart, johnrodrigues, tiago1986 -- which are now all banned. That poor guy was obsessed with preserving old video games, CD ROM drives and media, and electrolytic capacitors too.
You sound a bit like him, and certainly your topic of interest sounds like him. He also has used the name "cloudff7" on other forums, which sounds a lot like your current name. Is it you, yet again?
Here's a pretty comprehensive (but probably incomplete) list of this person's accounts used on many forums: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/general-computing/doubts-dvd-drive-of-pc/msg3423498/#msg3423498. I don't recommend engaging in discussions with this user. There is never a satisfactory answer, and discussing his preservation issues and concerns only seems to make the obsession worse.
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