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 <
alexandre.tabaj...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>    \o/
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> Enviado do meu Motorola PT550
> Meu site: http://www.tabalabs.com.br
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaetano" <gaetano...@gmail.com>
> To: <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com**>
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 3:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: Are my 2 Powerbook 100 only for the trashcan?
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>
> 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 <thes...@comcast.net> 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
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