Well, aside from the obvious reasons, it’s probably not the greatest idea to replace one old-age failed capacitor with another old-age capacitor! ;) Bob
On Jun 27, 2022, at 7:15 PM, John Heritage <john.heritage@gmail.com> wrote:
I was going to suggest harvesting old Apples and Mac's but then I'd probably be beaten up by a few people here ;)
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:12 PM Bob Shuster via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote: In all my years of collecting and using computers, and that’s 100s of computers and video game systems, I’ve never had a capacitor go or needed to replace one. Until now! Power supply filter cap on a TRS-80 Model 4. So where do you guys go for parts? I’m not looking to stock up, just need some one-offs (probably the X caps.) Do you just go to Mouser or Digi-Key? Does anyone have spares?
Bob Shuster