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They will need to replace its capacitors eventually, if they already haven't.
Capacitors have a lifetime of one to a few decades, then they swell up and leak, and the associated electronics start failing in all sorts of weird ways. Shitty capacitors don't even last a few years. There was a huge batch of those manufactured in the early 2000s due to a corporate espionage operation gone wrong.
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[–] frankenmine 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
They will need to replace its capacitors eventually, if they already haven't.
Capacitors have a lifetime of one to a few decades, then they swell up and leak, and the associated electronics start failing in all sorts of weird ways. Shitty capacitors don't even last a few years. There was a huge batch of those manufactured in the early 2000s due to a corporate espionage operation gone wrong.