The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
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The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
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Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#2Apple should be required to do a recall for these motherboards.
Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#3Apple should be required to do a recall for these motherboards.
For 1993 hardware?
Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#4Apple should be required to do a recall for these motherboards.
If they do a recall, it will say they should be discarded. Sony has a recall on all its trinitron tvs made before the end of 1990 like this:
https://www.sony.jp/products/overseas/contents/support/infor...
Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#5Apple should be required to do a recall for these motherboards.
If they do a recall, it will say they should be discarded. Sony has a recall on all its trinitron tvs made before the end of 1990 like this: https://www.sony.jp/products/overseas/contents/support/infor...
This shouldn't be allowed at all: if the product was bad all along, they should be required to fix it, and shouldn't be able to say "well, it's old, so you should just trash it", which means they don't suffer any penalty whatsoever.
Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#6Commodore had 3 capacitors mounted backwards on the A3640, the CPU board of the Amiga 4000 with 68040 processors: https://youtu.be/zhUpcBpJUzg?si=j6UFmIJzoC-UDS6u&t=945
Also mentioned here: https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/a3640
Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#7Well, today I learned to install one capacitor in reverse orientation on the PCB on a 34 year old computer...
Definitely starting Wednesday off productively.
Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#8Commodore struggled with same mistakes on negative rail in Audio section, but also somehow on highend expensive CPU board.
https://wiki.console5.com/wiki/Amiga_CD32 C408 C811 "original may be installed backwards! Verify orientation against cap map"
A4000 https://wordpress.hertell.nu/?p=1438 C443 C433 "notice that the 2 capacitors that originally on A4000 have the wrong polarity"
Much worse is Commodore A3640 68040 CPU board aimed at top of the line A3000 and A4000 http://amiga.serveftp.net/A3640_capacitor.html https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=73570.0 C105 C106 C107 silkscreen wrong, early revisions build according to bad silkscreen.
Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#9Well, today I learned to install one capacitor in reverse orientation on the PCB on a 34 year old computer... Definitely starting Wednesday off productively.
At least you made my Wednesday ;-)
Re: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
#10Commodore had 3 capacitors mounted backwards on the A3640, the CPU board of the Amiga 4000 with 68040 processors: https://youtu.be/zhUpcBpJUzg?si=j6UFmIJzoC-UDS6u&t=945 Also mentioned here: https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/a3640
Classic Commodore Quality :P
They also had backwards caps on the CD32 and A4000