@Henrik_Volkers wrote:
HV Caps can bite you 😄
As with capacitor plague: Here a video card with what we call china cracker ... the cooler is already harvested 😉
I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but I had a nice expensive video card bit the dust recently. There was a nice black mark on the PCB near the bottom of one of the caps but no visible bulge. I was curious if it was bad caps or just the inevitable failure of stressed equipment.
Can't say I didn't have it coming. I used that card to mine bitcoins for about 3-4 months straight during the winter. Warmed the room nicely and luckily I quit in the spring before the heat was annoying and the bitcoin market bombed. It's sacrifice was not in vain.
Now I just use it to collect dust and pass around classrooms to explain what an electrical engineer does. I need to find cool use for the sleek looking heat sink.
Josh
Software is never really finished, it's just an acceptable level of broken
