15 Mar
2004
15 Mar
'04
7:13 a.m.
Witchy wrote:
On dismantling I
find that one of the electrolytic caps on the power regulator side of things
is looking (to me) unwell in that it has a brown stain on the top over one
of the joins:
http://www.wowrarelook.co.uk/cap.jpg
Great domain name!
I gather replacement is necessary since it's
obviously on its way out?
Yup, that's a duff electrolytic all right. I recently replaced 15
like that one in a PC motherboard. The lowest was at 300 OHMS!
The hardest part is getting the solder out of the holes when there's
a nice solid ground plane to take all the heat away from the iron.
I got new capacitors from Farnell, about 50p each.
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk