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Originally Posted by AlanInSitges
Don't trust that; electrolytics in the power supply and sweep circuits need to be replaced. Same with the paper caps in power supply, sweep, and audio. But for next power up, electrolytics.
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Will definitely make sure to replace them now that I know that ESR is not necessarily telling the whole story about the health of these caps.
From what I have read online though the ceramic ones should be fine still as they are VERY reliable. Which seems to make sense as I have yet to ever run across a bad ceramic cap yet in all my time of working on electronics (albeit almost all of my experience had been vintage 80s and 90s computers)
It is just funny how it always seems with any electronics 30 years and older, solid state or not, computer, tvs radios ect almost always start having issues with capacitors. I would say nearly every issue I had was a capacitor related problem.
I mean were electrolytics not as reliable decades ago or is it just age catching up with them?