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Three hours of my life gone because of one tiny capacitor
I was fixing an old stereo receiver last week and it kept blowing the fuse as soon as I plugged it in. After swapping out the rectifier bridge, both power transistors, and even the fuse holder itself it still popped. Turns out it was a single 10 microfarad cap in the standby circuit that I skipped over because it looked fine. Anybody else had a simple part hide on them for way too long?
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lisa_ross164d ago
Oh man, I read something about this exact kind of thing just the other day. @angela_kelly is totally right about the scope being the way to go, I saw a repair blog that said the same thing. It's crazy how one little capacitor can act like a big mystery.
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