It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden ...

Video takes a wider look at the busted caps of early 2000s PCs and other gear. Video takes a wider look at the busted caps of ...

Vintage electronics and capacitor replacements tend to go hand-in-hand. Why? Because electrolytic capacitors just don’t last, not the way most other components do, anyway. The metal terminal ...

Having acquired some piece of old electronic equipment, be it a computer, radio, or some test gear, the temptation is there to plug it in as soon as you’ve lugged it into the ‘shop. Don’t be ...

A Redditor has shared a story claiming that his Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 'caught on fire.' The sad tale of several $1,000s in high-tech components going up in smoke is backed by ...

The gradient of this graph is equal to the capacitance of the capacitor. \(C= \frac{Q}{V}\) And the area under the graph is the energy stored by the capacitor.

Maxwell Technologies is expanding its ultracapacitor-based Engine Start Module (ESM) product line to class 3 through 6 medium-duty trucks that it has been offering previously to class 7 and 8 ...