Posted by: wfaulk
Easy to break capacitor - 23/08/2002 23:39
You know that capacitor on the back of the display's PCB? The one that David points out in the how-to-remove-the-drive-tray video? What does it do? Or, rather, what would it break if it were broken?
The reason I ask is that I was swapping some drives earlier, and I noticed that mine had a bad solder joint on the upper leg. Enough that I could have actually removed it from the PCB had I tried hard (which I didn't). I tacked it back on with a dab more solder and it seems solid now (and the empeg still seems to work -- fortunate, given my clumsy hands).
However, I hadn't noticed any problems before. Is it possible that it was making contact enough that it was working within spec? Or am I just too blind to notice an obvious problem?
The reason I ask is that I was swapping some drives earlier, and I noticed that mine had a bad solder joint on the upper leg. Enough that I could have actually removed it from the PCB had I tried hard (which I didn't). I tacked it back on with a dab more solder and it seems solid now (and the empeg still seems to work -- fortunate, given my clumsy hands).
However, I hadn't noticed any problems before. Is it possible that it was making contact enough that it was working within spec? Or am I just too blind to notice an obvious problem?