Wiki Review: Capacitor Replacement

[wthww]

Hello MLAers,

I did some work tonight on bringing over the Capacitor Replacement page. I'll finish up bringing the missing media over this week, but I took some time to clean up the page a bit in the process.

Would anyone mind taking a breeze through the cap values, or maybe add missing machines?

Second, would the "bottom" section of the page that has cap values for each model be better broken out into model pages with pictures/tables instead of bullets?

Thanks,

//wthww

EDIT: "tonight" to this week.

 

[Phipli]

Hello MLAers,

I did some work tonight on bringing over the Capacitor Replacement page. I'll finish up bringing the missing media over tonight, but I took some time to clean up the page a bit in the process.

Would anyone mind taking a breeze through the cap values, or maybe add missing machines?

Second, would the "bottom" section of the page that has cap values for each model be better broken out into model pages with pictures/tables instead of bullets?

Thanks,

//wthww

If you want to keep it simple but safe - replace all the 47uF 16v tantalum references with 25v.

25v work perfectly in place of a 16v (a little more expensive), but some of those locations are on the 12v rails. While a 16v electrolytic tin can is fine on 12v, a tantalum is meant to be at least 100% uprated (so 24v, with 25v being the next standard value).

A blanket change of 47uF 16v to 47uF 25v for tantalums is a safe change that corrects this issue without having to sit and work through which exact caps are actually on 12v.