18 May
2006
18 May
'06
9:01 p.m.
More fun from the CV 32- the CDC fixed SCSI drive sent up smoke signals today.
Does anyone know what the first SMD coming off of the +12v lead is on
these guys?
it doesn't look like a fuse, and (in the past) orange smoke seems to
mean tantalum caps.
Can you trace the connections (e.g. with an ohmmeter)? If one side goes
to the +12V line and the other to ground, then it's a very good bet that
it's a decoupling capacitor, probably a tantalum one. The value would not
be particularly critical (I would probably use 47uF or 100uF here).
-tony