Now that you are all set you can re-cap all your mac's and everyone else's too! :)
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Alexandre Souza < [email protected]> wrote: > > \o/ > > > --- > Enviado do meu Motorola PT550 > Meu site: http://www.tabalabs.com.br > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaetano" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]**> > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 3:45 PM > > Subject: Re: Are my 2 Powerbook 100 only for the trashcan? > > > Just a few words of gratitude: less than 1 month ago I started this thread > knowing really very little about old Macs internals, capacitors replacement > and so on. Today I have replaced my first 5 capacitors and I am not > stopping here! > > Thanks to everybody! > Gaetano > > On Aug 2, 2013, at 15:36, Derek Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Designers use aluminum electrolytic caps for all of 2 reasons; Price and >>> Capacitance. I can really think of no other reason (at least those were >>> the only reasons I ever designed one into a circuit - and usually just a >>> few in the power supply). >>> >> >> As I have pondered this a bit more, I can think of one more reason to use >> an electrolytic capacitor : Moderately High Voltage (500 VDC or so). You >> can get some fairly high voltage electrolytic capacitors and as such you >> can store large amounts of energy in them (9200 uF @ 500 VDC packs quite a >> punch). My design generally ran off 24 Volt transformers so this was never >> a huge issue for me. >> >> Derek >> >> -- >> -- >> ----- >> 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<http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml>and >> our netiquette guide is at >> http://www.lowendmac.com/**lists/netiquette.shtml<http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <vintage-macs%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/vintage-macs <http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs> >> >> Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in >> the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/** >> topic/vintage-macs/**eKZdWKOMSPs/unsubscribe<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vintage-macs/eKZdWKOMSPs/unsubscribe> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> vintage-macs+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<vintage-macs%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> >> >> > -- > -- > ----- > 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<http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml>and > our netiquette guide is at > http://www.lowendmac.com/**lists/netiquette.shtml<http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/vintage-macs <http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs> > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > vintage-macs+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- > -- > ----- > 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<http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml>and > our netiquette guide is at > http://www.lowendmac.com/**lists/netiquette.shtml<http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/vintage-macs <http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs> > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > vintage-macs+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- Charles -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. 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