Re: Harman HA-7.1hd(stuck on the same volume)



if it is a white van special, it's not worth fixing. if the amp ever worked properly to begin with, the cheap white van speakers could have broken it. some white van speakers have been known to blow out amps...

Re: Lacie Edmini NAS disk, you own one ? better open it!



this looks to be the same kind of supercap the original xbox has for clock backup. it's notorious for leaking....

Re: Are all Caps the Same?



those don't look like burn marks to me. it looks like the old caps leaked their electrolyte....

Re: M-Audio Studiophile BX8a reference monitors

i repaired some AV30s a while back for my roomie, bad caps all over the board and the cap failure had caused a zener diode to explode. there were some burnt traces i had to repair as well. i'd recommend not using those speakers anymore till you replace the caps. running them like that could end up causing damage to other components as the capacitors get worse.

Re: Was given a "broken" Dell XPS 410 (9200) and want to re-cap and get running again



not bad for a freebie, definitely sounds worth recapping. just be careful and don't rush the job. through-hole parts are usually nice and easy to fix. oh and if you think wii chips are difficult, you should see some of the PS2 chips that i install :P...

Re: M-audio AV30 speakers recap and repair



any recomendations? i might replace those two caps later. also, i mostly used nichicon and panasonic caps for the others. (the pannys were i think FC and FR series? got em off mouser.)...

Re: M-audio AV30 speakers recap and repair

ack, won't let me edit my post. made a typo on the two caps i didn't replace, they were 0.47uf, not 1uf. does anybody know if i could replace them with ceramic caps since they are nonpolarized?

my roomie got a set of AV-30s that someone was just gonna throw out cause they didn't work. i popped em open to take a look, and sure enough there were a few obviously vented caps, and a few that had the labels toasted up by a zener diode that exploded. the capacitors were lxon brand (i think... kind of hard to read the font on them) after replacing all of the electrolytics, (except for two 1uf 50v nonpolarized ones near the bass boost switch, i accidentally ordered polarized ones and didnt wanna swap the wrong kind in.) two ceramic caps that looked discolored from heat and two zener diodes, one...