28 Apr
2012
28 Apr
'12
1:10 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:54:11PM -0400, Toby Thain wrote:
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
The board worked fine for another 2 years (24x7 operation) until the machine
got replaced with something faster.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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