Hi everyone, been a while since I've been on for two reasons.
1) Got fired from my Cape Cod job and moved back to my house in central MA (not a bad thing as I didn't like it there, had a new job 1 hour later and am saving more $$ now) which resulted in me not having a lot of free time.
2) Because of the excellent information and previous help from this site I have been able to tackle any project that has come up.
That being said I am now faced with something I have very little knowledge of which is SMD cap value.
I have a Macbook Pro 2010 with the video crash problem which is caused by an under-performing SMD cap (I'll attach a photo of it) that is repaired by replacing it with a 330 microfarad 2 volt non-tantalum poly-film cap.
Here is my problem, I only had a couple of them on hand and am now in need of a couple more.
They are on back order from Mouser or cost prohibitive (shipping mostly) at this time from other suppliers that are out of the US.
I simply don't know enough (which means I don't know squat) about cap's to figure out what I could use instead.
It was suggested by another to simply pull one off of a dead board but again, I have no clue as to what to look for.
The mod does require increasing the mounting area so a larger size isn't a problem.
So in short, can someone help guide me in the direction of an alternative cap?
I have found some 330 caps on an old scrap board but simply don't know if they would work.
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1) Got fired from my Cape Cod job and moved back to my house in central MA (not a bad thing as I didn't like it there, had a new job 1 hour later and am saving more $$ now) which resulted in me not having a lot of free time.
2) Because of the excellent information and previous help from this site I have been able to tackle any project that has come up.
That being said I am now faced with something I have very little knowledge of which is SMD cap value.
I have a Macbook Pro 2010 with the video crash problem which is caused by an under-performing SMD cap (I'll attach a photo of it) that is repaired by replacing it with a 330 microfarad 2 volt non-tantalum poly-film cap.
Here is my problem, I only had a couple of them on hand and am now in need of a couple more.
They are on back order from Mouser or cost prohibitive (shipping mostly) at this time from other suppliers that are out of the US.
I simply don't know enough (which means I don't know squat) about cap's to figure out what I could use instead.
It was suggested by another to simply pull one off of a dead board but again, I have no clue as to what to look for.
The mod does require increasing the mounting area so a larger size isn't a problem.
So in short, can someone help guide me in the direction of an alternative cap?
I have found some 330 caps on an old scrap board but simply don't know if they would work.
DSC
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