Re: Battery "ressurection"

I came across this article and schematic during a web search for the nicad cure. It was from a Mother Earth News article dating way back. From my searches it seems that small short circuits form in the battery which causes it to fail and the idea of zapping it is to burn out those shorts. This appeared to be safer than some of the things I found, haven't built the box yet but it seems worth a try. I have attached both the instructions and the drawing, notice the polarity isn't specifically noted but it seems pretty straight forward. Any feedback...

Re: DTX9950 DigitalStream "Digital Stream" Converter Box CB CECB

I have 3 of these converter boxes, two have died, the boards and components are a bit different in each. The first one that died was an easy fix, C8 was a 15v 330uf which I replaced with a 25v 330uf, and maybe it is just us but the picture looks better than it did originally. Now for the second one C7 is popped and that is as the list above, a 10v 470uf. Here is where my memory fails me. It is an all silver cap with 4 lines on the top of the cap, 806, MVEC, 470, 10. From the list above, looking up the Sam...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Glad to be aboard. I did board level repair on cellphones back in the late 80's, but have been out of the electronics repair industry since then. Now I just fix my own stuff. I have forgotten a lot (hence the log in id) but have retained just enough to be dangerous. Found this forum while searching for a fix, got some good info here, but still need a bit more. Thanks, Bill