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Where to place a cooling fan supply capacitor

I want to run a ~2W, 12 VDC fan in an EMI-sensitive environment. The schematic is shown below. Due to the spiky current draw, I intend to place C1 and C2 right by the fan connector, so high frequency ...
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How can I improve conducted emission caused by a bad primary electrolytic capacitor?

I recently got the job to find out how to pass conducted EMI tests with a bad electrolytic capacitor after the rectifier in a power supply. The background is of course, that the new type is cheaper ...
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