I have to open it up again, tonight to check on leaking anyway, so I’ll look up the numbers of those caps. I really need to get myself a decent desoldering station, it’s currently taking too much time to desolder these buggers.
Erik > On 16 Jun 2020, at 13:31, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's interesting! > Could be that one of the caps you replaced on the +5V line is now > microphonic, or the transformer caps. > Which ones did you replace? > It would be interesting to see if you can isolate it. If you had some > alternative caps that you could try for the 3 you have changed, you could try > changing one at a time. > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:59 AM Erik van der Tier <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi All, > > I’ve had to replace 3 caps on my trusty T102 as they were leaking (nasty as > they were fairly recent replacements). The surgery seemed to have worked, > except for increase noise. It’s the kind of noise where you can hear the > processing of the CPU, more when its busy and it seems to have clear > ‘structure’ to it in relation to what the T102 is doing. > Is this a sign that the same or other caps are not ok? Does anyone have > experience with this. I really want to get this capacitor business over with > for once and at least a bunch of years (I’m having too much fun with the t102 > to let it just die). > Any thoughts on how to fix this? > > Cheers, > Erik
