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Maybe that will translate into a longer MTBF?




Hope so. I did the repair on the player in this thread. The datasheet on the new part specifies life as "5000 cycles," rather than insertions as I had mentioned before. The old and new parts appear to be of different origin, so no way of know how the old one was rated.

Stu
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