{"id":17919,"date":"2025-08-09T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17919"},"modified":"2025-08-09T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:45:17","slug":"the-smell-of-smoking-rifa-capacitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/09\/the-smell-of-smoking-rifa-capacitors\/","title":{"rendered":"The smell of smoking RIFA capacitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"180\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 294 \/ 180;\" width=\"294\" controls src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AppleIIe-SmokingPSUCapacitors.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">as caught on the Elmwood Electronics security camera, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>originally from Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/xcancel.com\/elmwoodelec\/status\/922838634130051072\">Elmwood Electronics \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 (@elmwoodelec) &#8211; 24 Oct 2017:  Public service announcement! Don&#8217;t leave your #apple2 #vintagecomputer unattended, lest a capacitor or transformer decide to start smoking.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>originally from Twitter: Elmwood Electronics \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 (@elmwoodelec) &#8211; 24 Oct 2017: Public service announcement! Don&#8217;t leave your #apple2 #vintagecomputer unattended, lest a capacitor or transformer decide to start smoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"TFW the RIFA capacitors smoke out ...\n#RetroComputing #AppleII #RIFA","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[3071,2998,2556],"class_list":["post-17919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-appleii","tag-magicsmoke","tag-retrocomputing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4F1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17922,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions\/17922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}