Posts by aido

Bouncing an old thread here but the old man has been using my old LX3 since it was last repaired and had said it turned off with a puff of smoke not long before Christmas.

Took it apart and sure enough C23 had grown 5mm where it had popped.

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The PSU PCB needed a good bath in IPA to get rid of the old crud (you can see some of it still attached to the old cap legs where it leaked).

I replaced both C23 & C24 (the 3300uf 10v ones) with Panasonic ones from eBay and she's up and running for a while longer now.

Thanks for the heads up guys - I finally got around to doing mine today!

I used these Panasonic capacitors as hopefully they'll outlive me and the box:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0…3187911_185740111_TE_item

The hardest part for me was getting the old capacitors out as it's only the second time I've ever soldered but it's gone well and the box came up first time so I'll keep an eye out to see if I still get the random reboots like I was prior to doing this.

In my case only one of the caps was bulging which was the 10v one, but I replaced both anyway so fingers crossed for more reliable service :)

Thanks again for the heads up - it was much easier than I'd expected!