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> - Motherboard no longer charges battery Current: replace motherboard Repairability: replace capacitors utilizing schematics

Some marginally related remarks:

Most faulty capacitors were manufactured around 2000s ( see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague ). Those days are long gone. Most battery charging issue now are unrelated to capacitor .

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> > - Motherboard no longer charges battery Current: replace motherboard Repairability: replace capacitors utilizing schematics

> Some marginally related remarks:

> Most faulty capacitors were manufactured around 2000s ( see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague ). Those days are long gone. Most battery charging issue now are unrelated to capacitor .

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While that's true the point still stands that we don't have access to supply chain parts to fix reparable charging issues.


What you are thinking of is limited to electrolytic capacitors. There are different kinds of caps.

Tons of dead Tantalums, those will explode in your face. Found in old gear from 1970-90.

MLC ones will burn so hot as to turn surrounding PCB material into coal, sometimes even causing open flame fires.

Small ceramic ones will dead short but not explode like tantalums, leaving you with dead weight of a product - this is the most common failure scenario in modern phones/laptops.




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