The early 2000s capacitor plague is probably not just a stolen recipe
It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden ...
Hackaday1y
An SMD Capacitor Guide
[Mr SolderFix] has been addressing this with a series of videos covering the basics of different SMD components, and this installment covers capacitors. If you are dyed-in-the-wool with SMD ...
Hackaday4y
Unrolling The Mystery Inside An Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor
Electronics beginners are taught the basic canonical capacitor: two metal plates and an insulator separating them. This is enough to understand the theory of capacitor operation, but there were ...
Nanowerk2y
An overview of the basic components found in modern electronics - capacitors, diodes, inductors, resistors and transistors
Most modern electronic devices consist of several key components: transistors, capacitors, resistors, inductors and diodes. Often, they are supplemented by additional components like crystals and ...