(Topic ID: 300187)

Large caps on WPC PDB & WPC95 A/V PCB - do they go bad?

By amxfc3s

2 years ago



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    #3 2 years ago

    I've encountered the "rolling line" display issue on a couple WPC-95 games, as described here:

    https://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_WPC#.22Rolling.22_Horizontal_Line_on_WPC-95_Display

    Otherwise, I haven't needed to replace any other significant WPC-95 driver board caps yet. I suspect that might start changing in the next few years as they get older.

    For WPC-89 driver boards...I've seen issues all over the map. Sometimes caps are involved, sometimes not.

    Quoted from ChrisHibler:

    PROVING that the cap was the issue would be nearly impossible. You'd have to remove and replace the cap "in-situ", which isn't possible.

    I usually test removed caps with an Atlas ESR70. If the cap is way off spec, then I figure it's usually a good indicator that it was contributing to a problem.

    I'll also test the new caps going in to make sure they aren't duds or counterfeits.

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