Occasionally I take in dead/busted electronics, in the vain hope I can repair them
I've got an LCD TV from a friend-of-a-friend, which "just stopped during a programme". Looking at the PSU, there are a fair number of CapXon electrolytics - most appear to be swollen (somewhere around the second trimester, in pregnancy appearence). A quick run through with my homebrew ESR meter shows they should be replaced.
Now, a couple of them are 16V/1500u devices. I have some decent quality 25V/1000u replacements to hand that I could use - or I could wait to the end of the week to get some exact value devices mailed to me.
The question is: Will the difference matter - what have people actually done in the past?
I've got an LCD TV from a friend-of-a-friend, which "just stopped during a programme". Looking at the PSU, there are a fair number of CapXon electrolytics - most appear to be swollen (somewhere around the second trimester, in pregnancy appearence). A quick run through with my homebrew ESR meter shows they should be replaced.
Now, a couple of them are 16V/1500u devices. I have some decent quality 25V/1000u replacements to hand that I could use - or I could wait to the end of the week to get some exact value devices mailed to me.
The question is: Will the difference matter - what have people actually done in the past?
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