I think my technique is improving.

[gastorgrab]

Cap replacment #4 looks like a success.

I just finished installing new capacitors in the board i pulled out of my video encoder. The capacitors weren't bad but i thought they were at the time i started yanking them out.

Anyway, i think i'm getting better at it.




The scorching on the underside occurs when my repeated attempts at getting the solder out of the holes keeps failing. (w/ desoldering braid)






This part caused me a little grief until i pulled out the microscope. I tuns out that these lines the kept bleeding into one leg of the capacitors was in fact the same trace.

EPoX chose to expose (to not coat in enamel/lacquer), areas that form parallel lines. Why would they do that? It should shield RF the same whether it is coated in enamel or not.



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BTW, i'm posting from this machine. It's not installed in any case because it's now orphaned.

I'm thinking of giving it to my sister to replace the junk i've been fixing until now (Abit BX-133, EPoX 3VSA2).
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