Translations:Xbox:Clock Capacitor/1/en

A heavily degraded clock cap.

The clock capacitor is a small supercap which allows the Xbox to keep track of time for up to about three hours after losing mains power. The black caps found within 1.0-1.4 models (plus their debug counterparts) are of low quality and prone to leaking a strongly basic (alkaline) fluid. While such leakages may not cause any immediate harm, given years they will eventually eat through an Xbox's motherboard and cause permanent damage to nearby traces, potentially rendering the system unusable (although generally still repairable). In some extreme cases, they can even catch fire - although this is extremely rare.