Not sure how common this is, so I thought I'd share it with the rest of you. It's not just the caps in the PSU that can fail...
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blown SMD cap on TT RAM
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blown SMD cap on TT RAM
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Re: blown SMD cap on TT RAM
That's a tantalum capacitor. Quite normal failure mode.
Those are just normal 30 pin SIPPs so you can just replace that one stick, probably fitting a SIMM socket for future replacability.
P.S. Everyone's right, they're ceramics. I was being put off by their colour.
Those are just normal 30 pin SIPPs so you can just replace that one stick, probably fitting a SIMM socket for future replacability.
P.S. Everyone's right, they're ceramics. I was being put off by their colour.
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Re: blown SMD cap on TT RAM
They look like ceramics to me ? I've had a few of those fail.
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Re: blown SMD cap on TT RAM
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Re: blown SMD cap on TT RAM
Looks like normal decoupling caps for each chip to me, so ceramic multilayer non polarized caps.
But if they fail there is a short between VCC and GND so BOOM!
But if they fail there is a short between VCC and GND so BOOM!
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Re: blown SMD cap on TT RAM
There was a nice black bloom on the inside of the case from the resulting mushroom cloud. Came off quite nicely though with a toothbrush and detergent.
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Re: blown SMD cap on TT RAM
Original Atari 4MB Fastram cards not use normal Edo or Fastpage Simm modules ...
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