Re: Capacitor problems

2010-06-29 Thread Jason Brown
On Jun 29, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Jim Scott wrote: > > On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Jason Brown wrote: > >> I was reading about that on slashdot. We have a constant stream of GX270s >> that I have to replace the caps on. It is a lot cheaper than buying new >> boards. A suggestion that I have that

Re: Capacitor problems

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Scott
On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Jason Brown wrote: > I was reading about that on slashdot. We have a constant stream of GX270s > that I have to replace the caps on. It is a lot cheaper than buying new > boards. A suggestion that I have that seems to work well. When soldering new > caps on, also

Re: Capacitor problems

2010-06-29 Thread Jason Brown
other leads and moves it to the leads that need more. I have gotten a perfect solder job every time on over 100 boards so far with this method. On Jun 29, 2010, at 12:57 PM, John Callahan wrote: > People with capacitor problems may be interested in this article in The New > York Times

Capacitor problems

2010-06-29 Thread John Callahan
People with capacitor problems may be interested in this article in The New York Times. Link provided: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/ technology/29dell.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com If there are no dogs in Heaven, when I die I want to