Re: Does Your Motherboard Have Leaking Capacitors?

From: john doe (jdoe_at_usenet.is.the.real.thing)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 02:25:47 GMT

Bob <nottooslow@forevermail.com> wrote

> That's what happened to Chris' PIII from CompUSA.
>
> Bob/Texas

All capacitors leak. It's called "leakage current".

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=%22leakage%20current%22&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_ugroup=sci.electronics.*&as_scoring=d&lr=lang_en&num=100&hl=en

I once put a large voltage to a small voltage capacitor that caused it to explode. But I have looked at many electrical circuits & mainboards and never seen anything leaking.

Is this on topic in (sci.med.transcription)?