Re: Unidentified caps in a media player


Thanks.
I'm probably wrong but my guess is the two different capacitor brands have different esr and ripple values.
I had a Acer motherboard that used single cap of a different brand but with the same capacitance and voltage as the rest....

Re: Unidentified caps in a media player



Sorry about the imageshacks. I spent an hour mucking around before I found the correct Manage Attachment button.

So I can replace all ten 100uF 16V capacitors (both brands) with one brand and series then?
Why would they use two brands of the same rating?
There were seven and three of the cheap caps.


I measured fluctuating 3.26 - 3.27 on a 3.3V pin on the serial port (one of the six pin connector) so I guess that's OK?...

Hi. I recently bought a bricked Kaiboer brand Realtek based media player.
I planned to revive it but discovered what looked like two kaput caps.
The player keeps rebooting.

I have trouble identifying suitable replacements as I can't find the datasheets for them.
They are KHCON brand caps rated at 100uF 16V.
However there are also several KCH brand caps also rated at 100uF 16V.

See fourth picture for positions of the two brands.
Yellows are KHCON. Orange are KCH

First and second show the burn marks on the sides of the...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi all,

I'm Raymond and I've been soaking up the collective knowledge on this site for some time now.
It has helped me repair a couple of boards and I hope to take a more active part in my electronics education.