Just a quick question to see if its even possible or wise to do so. Can Electrolytic Caps be replaced by Polymer Caps. If so would the ratings be the same and is it even a wise idea?
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Re: Replacing with Polymer Caps?
It depends...
What are you talking about?
In PSU it can be a pretty bad idea due to too low ESR, on VRMs it may be possible, but you still may need some capacitance...
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Re: Replacing with Polymer Caps?
Sorry about being so general. Right now I'm looking at a an MSI Motherboard that has bad caps on the 24pin power circuit. They are Electolytic caps and the rest of the board is Polymer caps. I didn't have any like caps to replace the bad ones but I do have some polymers on hand that might work if it was possible. I did find some more information last night on researching and it appears that some people have switched them before and you can cut the uF requirement in half by doing so. Of course this comes from sources I don't trust so I was looking here to get the experts opinion on doing so. I don't mind risking the board....its a cheap one at that. I don't do Fire and Smoke very well though so I'm just looking for advice.
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