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Old 04-29-2017, 08:11 PM
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Re-cap time?

Thanks Ron. I'll always be doing my best to keep this one running.

I think it's time for new e-caps. It's been having intermittent video problems for a while and now the picture has gone all screwy, so I've swapped it out with a console a few years newer until I can fix it. I don't want to risk catastrophic failure of something harder to get my hands on.

There's at least one e-cap marked "bi-polar"; I know what this is but don't know why it's in this set. I have to check a couple others under the chassis but so far it seems the rest are polarized.

There are also three oddball caps I hadn't seen the likes of before. I've attached a photo.

I've attached a screenshot as well, in hopes someone will recognize the symptoms and confirm that the caps are going bad. It's full of el-cheapo e-caps, many marked "Singapore".
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File Type: jpg Mystery cap.jpg (78.3 KB, 25 views)
File Type: jpg Caps gone wild.jpg (37.5 KB, 27 views)
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