28 Apr
2012
28 Apr
'12
1:23 p.m.
On Apr 28, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:54:11PM -0400, Toby Thain
wrote:
Had to do that to fix the caps on a G5 iMac because my current iron
wouldn't heat up hot enough to melt that damned lead-free solder. I
had the right caps to fix it and everything, I just couldn't get the
old wires out.
- Dave
Then there's the bad caps problem. Almost NONE of these get replaced
even though it's a trivial *component level* repair that doesn't
need a schematic.
I've had some of caps dying on an ABit BP6 motherboard a couple (7..8 or so)
years back. Couldn't find the exact replacement caps so ended up doing it
the dirty way:
- snipped of the old caps, leaving about 5 mm of wire stub behind
- soldered to caps in parallel to those stubs to achieve about the
same capacitance