Blast from the past! Guess what failed last night. Yep, the TL in the middle of the board, and it took out the Rubycon next to it which was in parallel. Still, with the thing being able to last 7 years with second hand caps I'm not complaining. Monitor has already been re-recapped using a Nippon Chemi-Con 2200µF 25V from 1981(!!!), it was the only thing I had even remotely compatible with the two in the middle, I really didn't want to string a bunch of 470s together as I'm out of 25V caps in my pile of spare parts. As there was no room for it to fit vertically it's lying on its side next to the...
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