Monitor Sync Signal in 80s Arcade Machine
On 21 Feb 2013, Ian Field wrote:
In equipment like a VDU, where there are pulsed currents
above the hearing frequency - electrolytics suffer a lot of
ripple current, the weak ones will get noticeably warm - or
even hot.
Your sense of touch could save you the cost of an ESR meter
- but the aluminium can isn't isolated, so rail decouplers
on negative rails will be live.
I presume I could use an infared temperature sensor to do the
same job while keeping my fingers out of zapping range?
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