Re: Original Xbox Replacement Caps

Awesome and that's excellent news. I'll have to queue up an order with Mouser soon and give this a go. Thanks again stj.

Re: Original Xbox Replacement Caps



Nice! Any recommendations? When selecting polymer and 2000uf, 6.3v, I see the following listing on digikey (look to be all manufactured by Wurth, a few 5000hr rated, the rest 2000hr rated).
[url]https://www.digikey.ca/products/en/capacitors/aluminum-polymer-capacitors/69?k=&pkeyword=&sv=0&pv2049=u2000%C2%B5F&pv2079=u6.3V&sf=1&FV=ffe00045&quantity=&ColumnSort=0&page=1&pageSize=25[/url]

I recall reading that the caps south of the CPU should be low ESR? I've seen the following...

Re: Original Xbox Replacement Caps

Resurrecting this thread as it contains some great information when it comes to capping 1.1->1.5 motherboards.

I'm looking to repair a 1.6 motherboard. There's 5x 3300uf 6.3v Nichicon HM series capacitors on this revision. It looks like the advice on 1.1->1.5 was to use 5X 1000μF 6.3V instead 3X 3x 6.3v 3300uf Nichicon HM. Unfortunately the 1.6 motherboard is laid out differently (there are no empty holes for additional caps).

Pic1 shows the 5x 3300uf 6.3v Nichicon HM caps with blown tops. The other 2 are...