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Re: Crisis in Japan: defective electro caps round the world

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From: Ross Vumbaca
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 03:51
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Hi,

Daniel wrote:

> You can often see it if you look at the top of the caps. If the tops
> are bulging (should be flat on top) or if you see juice coming from
> it, they are defective. I hade to resolder my Abit BX133 board last
> month due to defective capacitors (it stopped working suddenly). It
> can sometimes be hard to source the right spec. caps, but if you can
> get the right ones and have some knowledge in soldering, you should be
> able to fix it quite easily yourself (unless there are a lot of
> defective ones).

Thanks for the info :), I'll check it out.

Regards,

Ross..
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