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John Hasler said:
The Rubicon caps worked fine. The ones that popped were made by Chinese companies that tried to copy them but bungled the formula.
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The article I saw mentioned the stolen recipe but didn't say who it was stolen from or who did the stealing. Thanks for clarifying.
 
Hmm. I had somewhere heard the story about the Chinese piracy but didn't know or it didn't register that the exploding caps were wet electrolytics.
 
I work in IT and we had a literal plague of the knockoff caps blowing out in equipment. Motherboards in workstations, two HP (yech) servers, tons of video cards and power supplies, power supply boards in LCD monitors, etc. IF they died quietly, they just puffed up and leaked electrolyte. Sometimes they spat and fizzled, a few times they detonated. Not much stinks worse than that.
Although we did have two servers die completely, there were redundancies in place so the services they provided had minimal downtime. Mostly it was workstations and monitors that died. Though we did drop a core switch because of bad caps. That wasn't a pleasant automated call at 5am...
 
Yeah. The mother board in my wife's computer apparently died because of this. At least several of the same size PC mounted capacitors swelled up.
 
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