• Updated 2023-07-12: Hello, Guest! Welcome back, and be sure to check out this follow-up post about our outage a week or so ago.

Recent content by weldum

  1. W

    revive a macintosh 512k

    yeah, the analog board is recapped, with better and/or higher voltage ones where it's neccesary sadly the problem never went out, i'm suspicious about the flyback or the tube itself also there's a little of a burnt smell when you power on the thing the RGBtoHDMI thing should work, also i've...
  2. W

    revive a macintosh 512k

    Hi, I have a macintosh 512k that has some modifications (an 1mb+scsi+rom upgrade board) that works fine at least the logic board does, as the analog board is currently broken, it makes noises and squeaks and the image on the crt is way off centered, distorted and out of focus also, the keyboard...
  3. W

    modded mac 512k

    all caps are the same value as the old ones where possible, or with a bit higher voltage, farads are the same on all of these I've reflowed all the solder joints c1 cap is the only one that couldn't replace but I've found a suitable replacement now some traces were lifted up and they're been fixed
  4. W

    modded mac 512k

    mac with problems that's the video with the problem, i can't see anything like a spark the flyback is orange at the top and also i've checked an soldered all solder joints i wonder what is causing this issue, as the machine worked just fine before
  5. W

    modded mac 512k

    thanks i'll check it out later, now i'm facing new problems. I've recapped the analog board as it seems to be in very bad condition. before that the machine would just work fine (and then the rifa cap blew up) but now the machine boots fine but makes a loud noise, like coil whine or a problem in...
  6. W

    modded mac 512k

    hi, I have a modded mac 512k, it was upgraded to support scsi, 1mb of ram and the macintosh plus rom (acting effectively as a mac plus without the ram maxxed out) however it had some problems, the rifa cap blew up but i've got replaced it and it works wonderful the mouse doesn't work right, but...
Top