I can validate this article. We replace many mother boards for this reason. It seems to time consuming to try to replace the capacitors with the gamble that the next software reload will work. But I may look at the situation again.
John, WA5BXO -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Foltarz Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AMRadio] Boom Caps ~or~ M80mfds And you thought your 40 year old Spragues Atomlytics were bad.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/849190/posts I was looking up info on some Teapo caps. Specifically, I have a bunch of 100uf @ 450 WVDC and am hoping to use them for filters. While doing a search I came across the above article. I have a sneaky feeling I'll be better off making a purchase from Mouser... de KA4JVY Mark __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio

