Frankly, consider it lucky that's it's a comparable easy to fix problem. Broken ICs that aren't made anymore are much more difficult to replace, as would be SMD parts.
On Jun 26, 9:17 pm, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote: > At 14:15 -0400 6/26/11, Wesley Furr wrote: > > >How do you manage to replace those puny little surface-mount jobbies though? > > Through-the-board electrolytics aren't a problem, I've done a number of > >them over the years... > > Think about replacing the beasts with tantalum equivalents. > > Essentially all of the aluminum jobs are nothing but bypass capacitors on the > +5 or +12 volt power lines. The capacitance is never critical and can surely > be replaced with a tantalum job rated higher C. Somewhat smaller is also > probably OK because of the superior AC resistance specification for the Ta > parts. > > The voltage rating is important. At least 50% over the DC voltage is nice. > But watch out for Apple. On the SE/30 they use 16 volt caps for everything > even though they could have used 6 volt caps on the 5 volt rail. > > I have some aluminum electrolytics here that work fine after storage since > the 1960s. It's those smaller and smaller "modern" devices that have the > problems. > -- > > --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <-- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
