23 Feb
2009
23 Feb
'09
5:24 a.m.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
Hi
Sounds like capacitors.
Alhough it's a switcher any high voltage/high value capacitors in the
PSU might well need reforming.
Quite often you will see caps with a pair if incised lines on top. This
makes them go pop instead of bang.
You would not want to see a PSU where they have gone bang.
This is the only popped electrolytic I have ever seen, in damn near 30
years of fiddling with electronic stuff:
http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/blowncap.jpg
Gordon
