PSA to SparcBook 2 Users

[Connor Krukosky]

Yea I received a Sparcbook 2 and saw this damage knock some SMD 
components off the entire OTHER SIDE of the board from the leaky cap.
Got it going again with cleaning and repair work though.

I had a SB3 fail in its power supply module due to shorted tantrums on 
the output side of the supply which cooked the coil and switching driver 
chip.
Luckily most of these components were available from digikey at the time 
and I rebuilt that entire supply rail and the system came up OK.

-Connor K

On 9/22/2020 14:45, null via cctalk wrote:
> No, this applies only to Tadpole Series 2 and potentially Series 1 machines (although I have not observed the latter)
>
> Series 3(/3000) are completely different internally. Your SB3000 is safe- at least from this failure mode.
>
>> On Sep 22, 2020, at 11:02, Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> You flush electronics with Indian Pale Ale? Too many TLAs.
>>
>> This isn't a problem on the model of SparcBook you sold me, is it?
>>
>>> On 9/22/20 10:53 AM, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote:
>>> There is a 1000uf 10v cap on the main logic board just above the Bt display controller.
>>> It is leaking... a lot. (4/4 samples so far)
>>> Go replace it, flush the area and scrub the with 99.9% IPA.