JDW
Well-known member
Well, it is summer time now, so a wade through my videos might turn out to be quite cool and refreshing.It's @JDW's thread, so I'm sure he'll chime in soon without you needing to wade through the video just for that answer. []
I'm not sure which PSU and caps you gentlemen are speaking of regarding hot glue, but if you wade through my videos, you will see me selectively use hot glue. It's more important on the analog board than on something like the HD20SC SONY PSU because the big caps on the analog board are shooting out to the side, so there is much more pressure put on those two legs, and that is compounded by the fact you have a 60mm fan pounding those caps with microvibrations while the Mac is on. A tiny dab of hot glue will lessen the stress. The key point here is, you don't want something to cause the caps to leak over time because they are fluid filled.
I put Mouser Carts in the text description under all my recapping videos on YouTube. You must watch the videos on YouTube to see that text description. On a desktop computer, you must click SHOW MORE to expand it. And yes, you can even find it on mobile too, but again, you must be watching on YouTube to see that text. If you've never read through my text descriptions before you are in for a treat because I often pack them full of useful info, sometimes all the way to the 5000 character limit. I even include Amazon links to useful tools you might not have.
Why offer people a Mouser Cart instead of a link to Console5? Honestly, I wish Console5 would publish detailed specifications of all the capacitors they use so I could just link to them instead of spending hours making my Mouser Carts. But the fact is, you really don't know what brand caps you will get with Console5 until they arrive, nor do you know the part numbers even when they arrive. All the caps I choose are Nichicon or Panasonic or similar trusted brand names. I also choose capacitors with ESR in mind and the Hour rating in mind too -- most I pick are 5000 to 10000 hour caps. It pretty much goes without saying I choose only 105°C or higher rated caps. And yes, all that really does matter. You don't need an EE degree to pick good caps, but it helps, and I happen to have one. So I am not taking random guesses about the caps I select for others to use. I also pick caps in light of Larry Pina's recommendations as well.
Bear in mind that Mouser has no affiliate program so I get no kick backs at all for making the Mouser Carts. It's also high maintenance for me too because when Mouser suddenly runs dry of stock, I get no notifications at all, and I only find out when a viewer tells me, then I need to visit Mouser and find a suitable replacement cap, then update the Mouser Cart. It's really a lot of work for me, but I do it because I'd love it if somebody did that for me. I'm a firm believer in "what goes around comes around." Maybe someday some good things will happen to me. That's really my biggest motivation for making videos that help others. Helping others never gets old. I really enjoy doing it. Getting paid for doing it would be nice, but I'm not even close to being able to quite my day job for YouTube. I wish I could since my day job is only paying my rent these days. The economic situation here in Japan stinks.