Re: Bad Caps (little help please)

I have successful removed all caps (with putting a little fresh solder). But I have now another problem. I have a desolder pump, but with this solder (lead free) it won't work. The solder cools so fast (after heating with the soldering iron) that I cannot suck the solder when it's liquid because it's only liquid for a few miliseconds when I remove the solder iron. Is desolder lead a better way to remove the solder?

Re: Bad Caps (little help please)

Today I had a little time and I was trying to solder the new caps on the videocard (picture above). I have a ersa soldering iron of 40 watt. The problem is that the soldering on the videocard (on the caps) won't melt. I have tried with a small tip and with a chisel shape tip but the solder won't melt. I think that the solder on the videocard is not usual solder. Videocard: Saphire 8800 GT 512 mb. How can i melt the solder.

Re: Bad Caps (little help please)

Ok, thanks for the excellent help. I will try to fix the bad caps and post the photos on this forum.

Re: Bad Caps (little help please)

So it is also better for my VGA to add an extra cap on the empty space on the VGA to extend the life of my VGA? So putting 4 caps instead of 3 is better. If so, I can use for this fourth cap also a 1000uf 16V 1800mA cap?

Re: Bad Caps (little help please)

The caps on my 8800GT have these specs:

Diameter: 10 mm
Height: 12 mm
Space between the two connections: 5 mm

So after reading all these excellent help on this topic I think I know what to order.

I need 1000uf 16V 1800mA ripple current. What if I take caps with lower or higher ripple current? Is this harmfull for my VGA?

So I can use these caps: [URL=http://www.phenos.nl/Elco/FZ%20Series.pdf]http://www.phenos.nl/Elco/FZ%20Series.pdf[/URL]

The VGA is still...

Hi,

This is my first post on this website. I have a problem with my sparkle 8800GT VGA. Two caps are broken en they are also leaking. On the caps are showing some numbers.

Shown on the cap: FZ7C 1000 16V

I think that I need to replace these broken caps with new 1000uf 16V caps. Is this correct?

I have also another question: what means Ripple Current (for example 1240mA). When you take for example three caps from different manufacturers with the same properties (1000uf 16V), they have all a different ripple current. Is this something...