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 ...

Regular readers of Hackaday are intimately knowledgeable about old electronics, and whether it’s about that old oscilloscope sitting in the pile of other oscilloscopes, or the very rare vintage ...

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 ...

Dell plans to replace components on some of its Optiplex business PCs but will not issue a product-wide recall, a spokesman for the company said Monday. Performance problems with the company's GX270 ...

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 ...

The inside of classic radios holds wonders that the sterile chips and SMD components of today’s circuits can’t hold a candle to. Chunky resistors and capacitors, vacuum tubes with cathodes aglow, and ...

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 ...