| vlad321 said: WOW!
P.S. GG Consoles, G-Fucking-G. |
FYI, capacitor lifetime is rated for 5000 hours at maximum temperature and maximum voltage applied. For every 10 degrees cooler the lifetime doubles and I don't recall the way to correlate applied voltage to lifetime right now, but it is similar in the doubling vs % of maximum voltage.
EDIT: Also eletectrolytic capacitors don't degrade when unpowered, infact they tend to recover (although slightly). The other note to make is the rated lifetime is just a rating at which point the capacitance of the cap falls below its rated capictance tolerance. So in all electrolytic capacitor lifetime ratings, the failure is never a catastrophic one because electrolytic capacitors fail open, and thus just increase the likelhood of crashing in power supply applications.
