MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Matt Mc_Carthy:

 MR> What I do when space permits is to simply flip the electro to the
 MR> under side of the board. 

Now that's a nifty idea,  I'm going to have to try and remember that...

(Typing this on a monitor that's intermittently losing blue and making my
text look rather strange.)

 MR> I did that to the old vcr's fluorescent display DC-DC converter 
 MR> module circuit. This circuit had a tendency to cook electros to a 
 MR> crisp. I haven't needed to replace any electros in there since and 
 MR> amazed routine testing showed they were still fine. What a 
 MR> difference in reliability simply relocating a part can make!

Yeah.

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