Old devices often have a characteristic smell, e.g., from the dust that is being cooked inside the device.
Some of this smell unfortunately stems from leaking capacitors.
Is there a guide somewhere that allows mapping a specific smell to a specific kind of capacitor?
I know we don¡¯t have smell-o-vision in the Internet, but it should still be possible to verbally describe smells.
I¡¯m asking because I have an FG501A with some performance problems, as well as a characteristic smell.
Soapy, perfumy, I¡¯d say. I don¡¯t ¡°see¡± which capacitors are leaking, so I would love to use the smell to point to potential culprits.
(Of course, the performance problems could be unrelated to the smell, and the smell could also come from other components cooking themselves. In any case, it would also be nice to know how toxic that smell is¡)
Gr¨¹?e, Carsten
