It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden ...

Video takes a wider look at the busted caps of early 2000s PCs and other gear. Video takes a wider look at the busted caps of ...

There was a time when all radio receivers contained at least one, now with the advent of the varicap diode and the frequency synthesiser the traditional tuning capacitor is a rare breed.

It was also a time for doing parlor demonstrations, such as having a line of people holding hands and discharging a capacitor through them. The modern era of capacitors begins in the late 1800s ...

Did Apple really fit a capacitor backward on the Mac LC III? A multimeter-wielding retro fan has confirmed that, yes – somebody made a mistake decades ago, and a capacitor ended up installed the ...

Class action lawsuits have been launched across Canada alleging that purchasers of capacitors—or electronic products ...

If a larger value of resistance were used with the same value of capacitance in the above circuit, then a smaller current would flow, therefore it would take longer for the capacitor to charge up ...