These aluminum electrolytic capacitors are common residents on circuit boards. We may have cut one open to satisfy our curiosity of what’s inside, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we ...

The "Low equivalent series resistance," or "low impedance" aluminum capacitors at issue, contained an electrolyte solution that, when doing its job, served as a cathode and kept the paper ...

Don’t be so hasty. Those power supplies and analog circuits often have a number of old aluminium electrolytic capacitors of unknown condition, and bad things can happen if they suddenly get ...