Capacitors are an inexpensive little component on a PC motherboard, but they can be a costly headache for manufacturers when a whole bunch of them go bad. Last week, Dell announced it was going to ...

Failing capacitors are sending shock waves up the electronics food chain—literally. PCs are crashing and televisions and camcorders are going on the fritz, and the problem is becoming more widespread, ...

HD Electric Co.'s Cap Check line of capacitor testers are designed to identify internal problems with a capacitor or capacitor bank and have proven to be a valuable asset in maintaining both ...

Ahh, unsealed court documents -- the gift that keeps on giving. Whether it’s the internal Microsoft e-mails made public in the Vista Capable case or Intel’s alleged strong-arming of computer ...

HDE's Cap Check line of capacitor testers is designed to identify internal problems with a capacitor or capacitor bank and have proven to be a valuable asset in maintaining both pole-mounted and ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- Have thousands, even millions, of consumers been sold defective TV sets from a major manufacturer? That's what some attorneys say. They say Samsung sold TVs with power problems ...

After the math department at the University of Texas noticed some of its Dell computers failing, Dell examined the machines. The company came up with an unusual reason for the computers’ demise: the ...

The clicking began this summer. I purchased a 55-inch Samsung LCD television a few years ago for a not inconsiderable amount of money, which I justified to myself—and to my wife, who followed the “42 ...

A snubber circuit limits voltage spikes in power converters. Snubbers are also used in the output of Class-D audio amplifiers for the same reasons (Fig. 1). When the transistor you use to switch the ...