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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
