[John Horner]

Mark D. Zacharias wrote:


Many caps are specifically designed NOT to last as long these days. Look in
a DigiKey catalog. Why else would a cap be rated at 1000 hours, but betters
ones rated at 2000 hours, etc?

I've seen radios at 65 years old which still had (some) good caps in them.


Mark Z.




Probably not aluminum electrolytics though.