On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been told before by an industrial repair shop that usually the > first parts to fail are the electrolytic caps on the old drive boards. > Their standard was to replace all of the electrolytics initially and > then retest the board. The logic being that if they were not bad, they > were living on the edge. > > Dave > Dave, That's the gold-plated standard we follow when troubleshooting older test and measurement equipment too, like the Tektronix stuff I'm so fond of playing around with, and which Gene ha..., er, uh, dislikes intensely. ;-) Especially so in power supplies. Don't forget to look at the tantalums too. They can give up the magic smoke with spectacular fireworks. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
