On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:33:01PM -0500, KS wrote: > Henry Luciano wrote: > > > > *sigh*, multiple times. The hardest thing is removing the old caps and > > desoldering the holes, but all in all it's not that bad. Keep the iron > > hot enough to melt the solder but not hot enough to damage the trace. > > Practicing on an old board first would be a good idea of course. > > > > I used a solder suction pump along with the soldering gun. As soon as > the solder melted it was sucked up by the pump. Helps a lot if you > already have lots of experience using the equipment :-) > > You also have to make sure that when you solder the new caps, you can't > use too much solder as there isn't much space around. > > > FYI, you don't need to match the voltage of the caps, just the > > capacitance and diameter. Cf. http://www.capacitorlab.com/basic/index.htm > > > > I got the caps after listing their ratings from the original caps > themselves from http://www.badcaps.net/ They package took about 10-12 > days to arrive though. I'm inspired. I've got a really nice video card sitting on my bench with a bulged cap. I've been thinking I might try replacing that cap, but haven't got around to it yet. Triple-head here I come!! A
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