Recent content by racingmars

Followup on this to close the loop -- replaced those two caps that were in backward with new ones, and now the wonky video problem is solved!

Thank you -- where were you yesterday? :-) But yeah... the silly thing is I *know* this, but hadn't worked with this particular type of package before, and was just over-thinking it. I thought maybe they were going for simulating the "crimped" end with the black strip, although I see now the...

Okay, I even looked at the datasheet for those white Vishay capacitors when I put them in to try to figure out which side was positive, but it was not at all clear. I went with my gut thinking the black line may indicate the "crimped" side, and like the tantalum caps where that stripe would...

Oh... well this is suspicious! One of my new replacement capacitors on the analog board blew itself up!

Nope, this is my only one. Don't have any other parts to swap around.

Hello, I have a Macintosh SE/30 on which I've just completed re-capping the logic and analog boards. The machine is running great, but the video is slightly wonky. It's most noticeable on vertical lines: it looks like certain rows of pixels are offset slightly to the right. This is a...