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Last night my new landlord brought me a rotisserie chicken from Costco. So tonight I made chicken/green chili enchiladas. I also made a blueberry cobbler that I delivered to said landlord. She was very surprised, but one good deed deserves another. Didn't take pics.

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The Cure did a live stream from London tonight of their new album, which is ... fine, honestly. But after playing that, they then spent another 2+ hours blistering through their back catalog and it was something else! Robert Smith still in great voice, the band tight, A++ live sound mixing. This 80s kid highly recommends! The retrospective starts about an hour in after the first intermission.

Y'all know the phrase "Not the flex you think it is?" None of these are Photoshopped.

But the power button placement! https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/29/apple-stuck-the-mac-mini-power-button-on-the-bottom

Died by age not by usage I think. My carbon was rarely used. I have the same problem, same caps, all four are bad. Bad quality so who got these caps from the same group buy have to be cautious. My amp is taken apart on my workbench for months I have more serious problems, illness in the family. I hope I can continue the repair in the near future.

I just had one of the main capacitors blow in my Carbon which is a few years old and has been lightly used. I think its the input cap of the -400v board. The Caps are from the Groupbuy a few years ago (2015 OMG). F&T Germany 550V 680uf. Toroid is 2x 117v (234V AC In) and for the HV 2x330V out. Resistors on the boards for 400v configuration. Any idea what could have caused this?? Usually caps only blow from overvoltage?? The music was still coming through flawlessly after the bang, but I turned it off right away and checked the internals. I hope the other components are ok. Maybe it would be worse if it was the output cap. I am not 100% sure if the other 3 Caps may be slightly bulged or if they came that way from the factory. I will replace all 4 for sure. Does anyone have a partnumber from mouser ready? if I remember correctly a bit less capacitance would also work, right? What is reasonable? Edit: I just read some of the previous post with a similar problem. Maybe these caps are really trash... Edit 2: Just found the datasheet from the group buy I would probably order 4 of these (only 560uf, but should be enough) and hope everything still works after replacing... https://www.mouser.ch/ProductDetail/KEMET/ALA7DA561EF550?qs=IS%2B4QmGtzzosEBZF0Z4Lbg%3D%3D