Clym5 wrote:Just checked the 7.5v charger on a multimeter, and the voltage starts at 10v, then drops to 7 and slowly drops to 0v over 5 minutes. It would seem that the charger is shutting itself off very quickly after it is plugged into the mains, and the slow voltage drop is a capacitor retaining charge.
Or is that just a characteristic of not having any load on the charger?
Clym5 wrote:I've also never had a capacitor fail in any computer, which I consider a bragging right!
I think those caps just cost you your bragging rightsClym5 wrote:After recapping the motherboard
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