Re: Another iMac PSU (614-0352)

Awesome, thank you.

Unfortunately I don't have a spare iMac to test the supply in. It is most certainly dead. Two of the caps blew smoke/electrolytic fluid onto the heat shield and the symptoms are exactly the same as other computers with dead power supplies (a faint clicking noise on power-on, rapidly flashing #1 LED on the mobo, no drive spinup, etc.) which makes me think that it's the supply.

Fortunately, I already have his data which is what he cared most about so it's kind of a why not? thing at this point. I'll...

Re: Another iMac PSU (614-0352)

Thanks guys. I went by Rat Shack and got the good solder (thanks for the recommendation) and the braid. I was looking through the caps and it looked like a grab bag of different brands and I couldn't remember off the top of my head the long list of bad caps in the FAQ.

Luckily, there's a high quality mom n' pop electronics store in my area:

[url]http://allashers.com/[/url]

One last thing, is the problem on these PSUs exclusively on the low voltage side (read: should I pull the big 200v caps off and check...

Hi everyone, in trade for his repairing an old bicycle of mine, my sister's boyfriend gave me an old broken iMac to see if I could salvage his porn, I mean, data off of the drive. I did that but I wanted to see what the problem was and hopefully revive the machine. Turns out that lots of these iMacs had PSUs with crummy capacitors. Which lead me here.

I noticed that the exact same capacitors blew on this PSU as in the diagram here:

[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpost.php?p=71159&postcount=14[/url]

Interesting.

Here's my...