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John Goggan
I have a small circuit board from an OPI (Outside Pointing Interface) meter
for use with satellite dish pointing. It is a simple pass-through repeater
that displays signal strength data that it gets from a PC at the other end
(i.e. satellite dish feed to OPI to PC). It is no longer functioning properly
(always displays the same value regardless of the data). Looking inside,
there is a surface mount capacitor that appears fried/damaged.
It has no markings on it. Is there anything I can do to try to determine what
I can replace this with?
Basically, I'd like to find some non-surface mount equivalent and solder that
in to replace it. There are decent points (actual nice holes through the PCB)
to solder to for both ends, so I don't feel the need to replace it with
another surface mount component if I don't have to.
Any thoughts/hints on what I might do?
Thanks!
- John...
for use with satellite dish pointing. It is a simple pass-through repeater
that displays signal strength data that it gets from a PC at the other end
(i.e. satellite dish feed to OPI to PC). It is no longer functioning properly
(always displays the same value regardless of the data). Looking inside,
there is a surface mount capacitor that appears fried/damaged.
It has no markings on it. Is there anything I can do to try to determine what
I can replace this with?
Basically, I'd like to find some non-surface mount equivalent and solder that
in to replace it. There are decent points (actual nice holes through the PCB)
to solder to for both ends, so I don't feel the need to replace it with
another surface mount component if I don't have to.
Any thoughts/hints on what I might do?
Thanks!
- John...