On Wednesday 16 July 2014 05:11:41 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> 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. ;-)
Sorry about that Dave, but Tek earned that dislike. The bought the Grass Valley Group and screwed that up too. > > 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 > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
