Re: Electrolytic caps?

From: Watson A.Name - \ (NOSPAM_at_dslextreme.com)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:30:49 -0800

"Melissa" <melissa@colorado.xxx> wrote in message
news:QYedncdMwIethb3fRVn-3A@forethought.net...
> I used to work in electronics and have several large boxes of
electrolytic
> caps in my lab. Does anyone still use them for anything? Is there even
any
> electronics still being built in this country?

Yes and yes, but it depends on how old those caps are. Over five years
old, and they're not 'fresh'; ten years and they're 'stale'.

> --
> Yours In Liberty, Melissa - Colorado, U.S.A.
> http://lakewoodcolorado.net/MailOrderPrototypes.htm

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