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  • mbates14
    Senior Member
    • May 2005
    • 169

    #1

    Not only motherboards but...

    Not only motherboards have bad caps is right.

    Im sure your all familiar with the older Sony CCD-F77 series camcorders. WOW what a sight. All 100 or so caps were leaking and bad, I had to recap the entire unit.

    what made it even more fun, I couldnt find the SMD kits anymore with all teh replacement caps, so I had to use all radial caps. talk about a space hog. And to top the cake with the icing, about 20% of the caps, the pad came with it!!


    but not surprisingly, it works again.
  • willawake
    Super Modulator
    • Nov 2003
    • 8457
    • Greece

    #2
    I couldnt find the SMD kits anymore with all teh replacement caps, so I had to use all radial caps.
    we are gonna have to see PICS OF THAT!!!!!
    capacitor lab yachtmati techmati

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    • kc8adu
      Super Moderator
      • Nov 2003
      • 8832
      • U.S.A!

      #3
      welcome!
      btw i have a video watchman i need to recap.
      thats a sony 8mm/tv handheld.
      lots of dead smt lytics.

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      • mbates14
        Senior Member
        • May 2005
        • 169

        #4
        i cant give you pics, i dont have a digital camera anymore. it got stolen.

        I live in hamilton, or "hamiltucky", so that comes to no surprise around here.

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        • mbates14
          Senior Member
          • May 2005
          • 169

          #5
          trust me, you dont want to see pics of that. its a monstrosity.
          I still have 3 left in the y-process section. 3.3uf, 10uf, and a .22 uf around the IC. i ran out of room, so I couldnt replace it. i can tell they are wasted, because when I record from the camera head, its got lines in it. kinda. (noise lines, like a bad rca cable would give). it records from the RCA jacks perfect now, and playsback perfect, and the camera's output is perfect. but it wont record properly, I know its those caps.


          and to top it all off, when resoldering one cap in the record RF section i took an SMD resistor with it. and the pad

          so I put a big resistor in there, and hot glued it. that VA board looks like a biiig mess, BUT it works!

          I only had like 3 SMD caps that i pulled off of an old ps2 board.

          the rest were radials i pulled from fairly recent computer cards. and I pulled about 30 10uf caps from an older sony surround reciever. all ESRd near perfect.
          Last edited by mbates14; 05-09-2005, 10:30 AM.

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          • bushytails
            Moderator
            • Dec 2004
            • 217

            #6
            oh yes we do want to see pics.

            --Randy

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            • mbates14
              Senior Member
              • May 2005
              • 169

              #7
              send me a digital camera, ill send pics.

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              • mbates14
                Senior Member
                • May 2005
                • 169

                #8
                your all moderators. I feel left out

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