Hi, folks. New to the boards, but been reading for awhile. I'm no stranger to bad caps themselves either, having had two PSU's and an AOPen motherboard crap out as a result of them.
I thought I'd bring to attention that the E-Mu 1820m audio interface is no stranger to them either. Mine was working well for almost 2 years, then out of the blue, started suffering from unusual amounts of humming and buzzing on every channel. The breakout box was losing sync with the PCI card as well, and eventually, I uninstalled it and set it aside.
More recently, I decided to look inside and surprise - two G-Luxon caps have are exhibiting bulging tops and have noticeably popped up from the PCB, and two Jamicon's don't bulge, but look unusually raised from the board. Despite this, I had one last go at getting it to run properly, but ran into the same issues. I opened it today to try and identify the components inside, and the affected caps look even more raised and awkardly bent to the side than before.
The caps used in this "pro" piece are:
G-Luxon LL85°C
G-Luxon LU105°C
G-Luxon LZ105°C
Jamicon SK85°C
Jamicon SS85°C
Jamicon SS105°C
Should I even try recapping it, despite having no soldering experience, or just cut my losses?
I thought I'd bring to attention that the E-Mu 1820m audio interface is no stranger to them either. Mine was working well for almost 2 years, then out of the blue, started suffering from unusual amounts of humming and buzzing on every channel. The breakout box was losing sync with the PCI card as well, and eventually, I uninstalled it and set it aside.
More recently, I decided to look inside and surprise - two G-Luxon caps have are exhibiting bulging tops and have noticeably popped up from the PCB, and two Jamicon's don't bulge, but look unusually raised from the board. Despite this, I had one last go at getting it to run properly, but ran into the same issues. I opened it today to try and identify the components inside, and the affected caps look even more raised and awkardly bent to the side than before.
The caps used in this "pro" piece are:
G-Luxon LL85°C
G-Luxon LU105°C
G-Luxon LZ105°C
Jamicon SK85°C
Jamicon SS85°C
Jamicon SS105°C
Should I even try recapping it, despite having no soldering experience, or just cut my losses?
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