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Turn on Apple to preserve it?
- Subject: Turn on Apple to preserve it?
- From: JK <spamless@here.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:19:02 -0700
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Qwest Communications Corporation
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(from sci.electronics.design )
"
The electrolytic capacitors go bad in perhaps as few as 10 years if
they are not powered on from time to time. The nonconductive surface
on the aluminum electrode can gradually erode away. Under bias, this
doesn't happen.
"
If this is true, does this mean powering an A2 up from time to time
helps the aluminum capacitors stay healthy?