"James Sweet" wrote in message
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"Heinz Schmitz" wrote in message
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James Sweet wrote:

Usually when one of these
surface mount capacitors is bad, the rest are nearly shot too. I usually
replace them all, then the thing is good for years.

I'd be interested to know what makes you so sure that the caps
you bought for replacement are of superior longevity compared
to those the manufacturer did put in :-).

Regards,
H.



Well for starters they don't have several years of use on them. All else
being equal, they're probably not. I hate surface mount lytics.


I replace them with regular through hole caps. It usually works without any
problems. Just bend over the leads and solder them to the lands on the
board. The biggest reason I do this is I can`t get smd stuff locally but can
get almost any value through hole cap.

Mike