Re: Bad caps, but machine is going strong.



Heh, had the same thing happen here with a Soltek 75DRV5 (the one I'm slowly moving towards recapping). All four CPU VRM caps leaked out the top, and most other big caps on the board are bulging.

It had been running about 6 months straight as a gameserver (and the board had already lived through 3 years of relatively hard use), during which I never had a reason to open it up as it was perfectly stable. I then upgraded the ram, at which point I noticed the caps in this state. The machine was still rock-solid...

Does anyone here know a place to buy capacitors in Australia WITHOUT needing a credit card? The only places listed in the FAQ are RS and Farnell, both of which only do CC orders.

I'm going to be recapping a Soltek 75DRV5 and a Sun Ray 1, neither of which require massive amounts of capacitors, so if there's someone in Oz who has a small stash of caps around that's willing to sell let me know

75DRV5:
{} 6*2200uF, 6.3V
{} 2*1500uF, 16V
{} 1*1000uF, 6.3V

Sun Ray:
{} 1*3300uF, 10V
{} 3*1000uF, 10V

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