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Originally Posted by gibs
Hi guyz,
As I haven't received my capacitors at this time, I have removed the capacitors from the CDTV PSU. Then with I did some measurements and only one was 1560uF instead of 1500uF.
So maybe the PSU's capacitors are not faulty.
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Electrolytic capacitors, at least large ones can have -20/+20% tolerance...
They can still be faulty. Old electrolytic capacitors may appear perfect, both externally and when measured but they can still fail to work correctly in high frequency (like switching powersupply or CRT TV) circuits.
(many years ago I fixed P3 mainboard that didn't boot, it had known bad capacitors, most of them had leaked but they all still measured perfectly fine in capacitance meter. Replaced capacitors and it booted normally)