On 5/28/2013 1:19 PM, Y'all Gibbons wrote:


Good job and nice video. I've found that capacitors are a problem
area in a lot of gadgets. My car died once and the mechanical traced
it to the computer. Before buying $$$$ another one, I pulled it open
and could smell a burned cap and then saw one that was leading.
Replaced it for 15-cents. Turns out (digging online) that those caps
were known to the car maker that they were failing after 3-5 years.
(One of the few times I actually fixed something, my wife says.
LOL!)


Good thing you were able to repair an expensive vehicle computer. There
are companies that rebuild the evil things and sell them to you with you
trading in your broken one. I replace capacitors all the time in AC
units after a thunder storm comes through the area. One of my customers
with a pizza place had two Viewsonic monitors fail and it turned out to
be an electrolytic capacitor in the power supply that was failing in
many of that model. I replaced them with the same capacitance value but
with capacitors that had a higher voltage and temperature rating. The
monitors are in the kitchen where they are exposed to higher
temperatures than what would be in an office setting. I imagine you
would replace the capacitor in your vehicle computer with at least one
with a higher temperature rating because it gets hot in a vehicle. ^_^

TDD