RIFA Capacitors – Quick Look at why you should remove them.

In this video we briefly discuss how to identify the RIFA capacitors in older electrical equipment, show how they fail and discuss why we recommend replacing them if you find them in equipment you are repairing.

Tools Used(*) :
Nil in this video – although the replacement of RIFA capacitors will require a soldering iron.

Parts Used: (*)
Nil. But we did show a part that was used in one of our recent RIFA capacitor replacements.
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Acknowledgements:
~ Access Health & Community (https://accesshc.org.au/) and the Boroondara Council (https://www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/) for facilities and organisational support.
~ Our NBRC volunteers for your great energy and commitment to our repair activities
~NBRC acknowledges that these videos are created on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present, and recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded.

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