rbl wrote: > My soldering skills were pretty bad at the best of times, and my > soldering iron is my Dad's from the 50s! Just wondering if I mess up > removing these capacitors, or putting new ones in, presumably the > digital outputs will continue to work? So then I can just get a DAC... > Am very tempted to twist them off as described elsewhere. > > Also I am not sure whether to go for C16/20 or C21/23? I want the RCA > outputs to work, not the headphones. Regarding whether they are > correctly polarised, the black stripe on C16 is to the left away from > the PCI card, C20 is to the right, and on the C21 & C23 it is at the > bottom.
I can confirm that twisting the caps works well on the SB3 PCB. I just did a full board, no damaged pad. Much easier than having to desolder them one by one. I gently push the top to make sure I'm not rocking them while twisting, that's all. LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103213 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
