No Power Fault
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I completely strip down a non-working Presonus Eris 3.5 Generation 1 studio monitor and replace its failing electrolytic capacitors to repair a problem where the monitor speakers were not working. The Eris 1 was not powering on and seemed dead. The stock caps were cheap, low-quality parts that had become faulty from heat. As one…
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A dead Tatung Einstein, a vented capacitor and a blown fuse. I swap in a Mean Well PT-65B on a custom 3D printed mount inside the original PSU shell.
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An Atari Lynx II that won’t power on, fixed by replacing the power stage components (Q12, D13, Q7, Q8, R74) and recapping the board with a Digital Delights kit.
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A 3DO FZ-1 bought as working had an intermittent fault. Leaking power stage capacitors were the cause, and replacing them exposed a failed regulator and blown fuse.
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The final part of the dead 3DO FZ-1 repair. I test the removed capacitors, fit replacements, power it up and play some games.