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Two caps on bottom power board.

By Yeastlord

7 years ago



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#3 7 years ago

Why not FIRST determine what is causing the fault that you have?

It is very bad policy to shotgun repairs on any product and pinball machines are no exception.

Have you started a thread here about what issues/problems your machine has and determined that there is a high likelihood the cap or caps are faulty?

Many suggest replacing caps - "just because" - I wouldn't be so hasty to do that. Thousands of caps have been replaced and PCB's damaged to no avail just because "the internet said to replace them".

There is no point sourcing, buying and replacing things that won't help fix your machine.

Of course you may have already proved they need replacing but just didn't mention it here?

#5 7 years ago
Quoted from TheLaw:

Pretty sure his PCBs should be fine?

I was speaking generically about many OTHER caps that have been replaced damaging boards in the process.

My suggestion to the OP is to actually fault find and not replace things willy nilly.

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