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I recapped my apple 2e because I was having random reboots memory errors that changed every test and poor picture quality the capacitors had bulged and leaked some black goo.

Here are pictures of the recapped areas

The capacitors in question are 10uf 16v axial electrolytic

I replaced them with 10uf 15v tantalum axial
And the 2e runs like new

Tom

@rubber_jonnie

Oh, you should really have given those tantalums a lot of voltage headroom. The semi-official advice from manufacturers is to use a voltage rating 1.5x that of an electrolytic in the same position as tantalums can't handle the spike current as well and will be damaged by short lived over voltage.

Kemet does make a 10uf 20v tantalum axial at about 4 dollars each. While I have the 15v ones in my kit for free

Tom

Back together and working


Tom

Looking at my IIe, it seems to have similar caps to those you've fitted, though it doesn't look like re-work.

Nice Job.