Hi all, great forum.
I just bought a cheap DELL SX270 off EBAY, for my kids
Did a bit of a search around and found this site after winning the SX. Hmmmm, bulging cap problem.
Anyway the DELL works just fine, but look what I found when I opened it up to check
(ideally a link to a picture would be here, but the picture I took is too large and I don't have a program to resize it at the moment).
YEP, bulged caps alright, and one with it's guts spewed out the top.
Lucky for the kids that their dad is an electrical tech.
The bulged caps are 1 of 1000uF 16v NICHI, and 5 of 820uF NICHI.
The rest of the caps are RUBICON's thank god ( or your preference of diety ). Have to order some through work.
We have a bunch of 17" IBM LCD's at work that are on 24/7 that started dropping like flies. You guessed it, bulged caps. We didn't bother sending them back for warranty, more fun and quicker just to replace the dodgy caps ourselves.
Rock Lob
I just bought a cheap DELL SX270 off EBAY, for my kids
Did a bit of a search around and found this site after winning the SX. Hmmmm, bulging cap problem.
Anyway the DELL works just fine, but look what I found when I opened it up to check
(ideally a link to a picture would be here, but the picture I took is too large and I don't have a program to resize it at the moment).
YEP, bulged caps alright, and one with it's guts spewed out the top.
Lucky for the kids that their dad is an electrical tech.
The bulged caps are 1 of 1000uF 16v NICHI, and 5 of 820uF NICHI.
The rest of the caps are RUBICON's thank god ( or your preference of diety ). Have to order some through work.
We have a bunch of 17" IBM LCD's at work that are on 24/7 that started dropping like flies. You guessed it, bulged caps. We didn't bother sending them back for warranty, more fun and quicker just to replace the dodgy caps ourselves.
Rock Lob
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