Peculiar Value Caps on Dell Mobo

[Neo2_000]

With all the talk about latitude in values of replacement caps, thought I would post these rather unusual caps by Dell from the last round of GX270's I recapped for your consideration.

The values seem to be very specific and I would guess Taylor made since I have only seen them on one other board.

680uF & 820uF by Rubycon, Panasonic and Nichicon.

I just used 100 x 10v for replacements all round. Hope this didn't stretch the friendship too far but they all booted OK.

[Topcat]

Re: Peculiar Value Caps on Dell Mobo

I dont think I've have strayed that far off with those. Why did you replace the pannies? They wouldn't give you any problems. A safe bet for replacements on those values would be 1000uF. If it's working though, roll with it.

[Neo2_000]

Re: Peculiar Value Caps on Dell Mobo

Doh!

Please feel free to edit that post. I meant 1000uF, not 100!

Sorry, can't type. Could just imagine what what going through your mind when you read that!

Didn't actually replace the Panasonics. These were salvaged from another board. Just used them for illustration.

Forgot I had them, else I might have used the few I had to replace the single 680uF Nichi on each board- a bit closer to the original value than the 1000s.

Any thoughts on why Dell would select such peculiar value caps?

[kc8adu]

Re: Peculiar Value Caps on Dell Mobo

the 820@6.3 are ultra low esr.
you can now get 1800@6.3 in that 8x 25mm case.but esr is much higher.