A minor repair success...

[Jeffrey Angus]

Wife hands me the DVD player from the bedroom, "It
won't turn on anymore."

Aw crap, well, ok, I'll look at it.

Take it out the the shop, pop the lid, oh look, a
bulging cap in the switching power supply. Replace
that and presto, it works again.

Sometimes we get lucky.

And I'll get dinner tonight. ;-)

Jeff

 

[Meat Plow]

Wife hands me the DVD player from the bedroom, "It won't turn on
anymore."

Aw crap, well, ok, I'll look at it.

Take it out the the shop, pop the lid, oh look, a bulging cap in the
switching power supply. Replace that and presto, it works again.

Sometimes we get lucky.

And I'll get dinner tonight. ;-)

Jeff

So if you didn't fix the DVD player no dinner?

 

[Sergey Kubushyn]

So if you didn't fix the DVD player no dinner?

No guts no glory

 

[Jeffrey Angus]

So if you didn't fix the DVD player no dinner?

Well that depends....

If I had said, "Nope, the DVD is broke, it died. We need
to buy a new one for $19.95"

I would probably still have gotten dinner.

If I had said, "You've got to be kidding me? Why should
I waste my time on that cheap piece of shit?"

I would have been eating an MRE out in the garage.

Jeff

 

[Jeffrey Angus]

You might want to actually *check* the voltage across that cap
instead of blindly replacing it with one that has the same
markings. I see lots of undervoltage caps in cheapy consumer
kit (especially DVD players).

Oh that was easy, it was a 16V cap. I replaced it with a 25V
just on general principles.

Yeah, but will it be *edible*?? :>

It was quite good actually.

Jeff

 

[D Yuniskis]

Wife hands me the DVD player from the bedroom, "It
won't turn on anymore."

Aw crap, well, ok, I'll look at it.

Take it out the the shop, pop the lid, oh look, a
bulging cap in the switching power supply. Replace
that and presto, it works again.

Sometimes we get lucky.

You might want to actually *check* the voltage across that cap
instead of blindly replacing it with one that has the same
markings. I see lots of undervoltage caps in cheapy consumer
kit (especially DVD players).

And I'll get dinner tonight. ;-)

Yeah, but will it be *edible*?? :>