Re: Game & Watch Fire with no sign of life

Thanks I ordered a replacement one and also a new crystal. I'll report back once they're installed.

Re: Game & Watch Fire with no sign of life

Lend one from a partial broken (PCIe slot not working) MSI K9N Neo with nothing but E32K printed on it. Still the same result.
Do you know what the green part is? It has .33/35 +++ printed on.

Re: Game & Watch Fire with no sign of life

Ok thanks for the hint. I'll order a replacement and look if that'll fix it. It should be a 32 kHz one if I'm not mistaken? Only thing printed on is KDSIL but I couldn't find anything about it.

Re: xbox ultimate solid-mod

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Many retro consoles have a external psu and only a small internal power board so that could be fine.

I've got a broken Game & Watch and was hoping that it would be just a trivial problem like dirty contacts or a dry cap. But even after replacing every part but the zener, the crystal and a unknown part (the green one at the bottom right) and supplying 3v from my bench supply it still won't display anything.
I tried exchanging the polarization filter with one from a working one but that didn't help either. I also dipped it in 99% isopropyl to clean of any gunk and resoldered any joint I could reach to exclude cold joints.
The traces seems fine for me and I measured everything...

Re: xbox ultimate solid-mod



Ah alright. Because of the far lower esr of polys? Is this only true for higher wattage psus (xbox and newer) or basically for all psus? I was thinking about replacing the psu caps on some retro consoles, so that would be a real downer....

Re: xbox ultimate solid-mod

Great work but why did you use tantal caps instead of polys in some places?
Also do you've plans to do the same for the psu as well?

Hi all, I've got a 1994 Japanese Panasonic 3DO with 2 leaking caps. Since all the caps are now 25 years old I decided to swap them all before more of them start to leak.
To reduce the danger of another leakage in the future I decided to swap every possible cap with a poly cap.
Has anyone here done that already and give me some hints?

I found a "fitting" (voltage, uF and measurements) poly cap for all but 3 caps. The largest cap is a 6800 uF 25v cap, since there aren't any 6800er polys I'll get a high quality electrolyte one with a higher temp rating. The...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi all. I've too many (mostly old) consoles laying around. Some of them already started to leak (a game gear should be the worst I've seen so far, it also had some battery acid mixed in) and so I want to change the old caps before that happens.