Cap kit time length

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Just curious on the average time for a cap kit with 25 to 30 caps to replace. I seem to think I am slow in doing one. Taking an hour total time for me . I use a styrofoam square to line up the caps according to the sheet. Then one at a time.

I am not attempting to set a record, as speed always indicates problems.
What are your thoughts??
Thanks in advance.
 
Fast compared to me.

I take it very slow and methodically because I don't want to debug problems afterwards.
 
Fast compared to me.

I take it very slow and methodically because I don't want to debug problems afterwards.

Agreed. I would rather spend some extra time rather then figure out what I did wrong later.

Depending on the Monitor, for me it's between 30 minutes and an hour. Sanyo taking the longest. GO7 and GO5 being the quickest.
 
I won't post how long it takes me. :(

Did I mention how careful and methodical I was? :)
 
my first one took 2-3 hours, lol.

modessitt does it in about 15-20 minutes, but I bet he pulls all the caps and puts all the new ones in.

I take 30 minutes to an hour depending on if I go on a tangent and start pulling and reflowing solder where I see necessary.
 
my first one took 2-3 hours, lol.

modessitt does it in about 15-20 minutes, but I bet he pulls all the caps and puts all the new ones in.

I take 30 minutes to an hour depending on if I go on a tangent and start pulling and reflowing solder where I see necessary.

I've only done 2 but I was still over the 3 hour mark. :)
 
I guess about an hour for me. I still take my time and double check the polarity of every cap so I know it is going to be right when I am done. I don't think I have seen a chassis that was screened wrong yet (maybe a sanyo a few years ago, bot I can't really remember), but I keep checking anyway.

I did a k7000 this week that probably took about 2 hours. Just about every pad was lifted, so I jumped them all to the next component. What a pain. I almost stopped in the middle of it to just order a new one and be done with it. I ended up finishing it though, and it looks pretty good.
 
I actually timed myself once. Fastest was with a k7000. Total cap time was 22 minutes, but that didn't include pulling the chassis out or putting it back in. The more of a certain type of monitor you do the faster you can recognize the caps needed for each spot.
 
Still takes me about an hour. The reason being is that I am not sure where all the cap locations are still... it takes quite a lot of time to ID where each cap location is. I am sure Mod has done enough that he knows where each cap location is by memory.
 
What slows me down are the small caps somtimes its hard to tell what to unsolder on the bottom of the chassis. I would say about 1-3 hours depending.
 
What slows me down are the small caps somtimes its hard to tell what to unsolder on the bottom of the chassis. I would say about 1-3 hours depending.

Yeah, me too. What kills me is when there are a number of components that are densely packed into one area. It takes me forever to figure out which is the cap leads on the solder side.

It's easy when the components aren't so densely packed into one area; those go quickly but I really struggle with this.
 
modessitt does it in about 15-20 minutes, but I bet he pulls all the caps and puts all the new ones in.

I usually say it takes about 1 minute per cap, but I can do faster. I've done a complete G07 rebuild - caps, curl mod, HOT, VR, fuse, width coil, and flyback - in 28 minutes.

Having the experience of a lot of monitor rebuilds, I bet I do them a lot different than people who do one a year. I don't buy cap kits, as I keep a lot of different value caps in bulk. I keep lists of many different kits, so I just go pull all the caps I need, then I arrange them on the bench in order of lowest to highest (by microfarad). Then - instead of pulling a capacitor, checking the location, comparing to the sheet, finding the cap, inserting it, soldering, clipping, marking off the sheet, etc - I just pull the cap, check it's value, grab the replacement, and put it in. I don't go down the list one at a time, trying to find the location for that cap. I just look at the chassis for a cap, then pull and replace it. I start in one corner and go around the board until I'm done. The only time I look at the list is if I pull something that doesn't seem to match what I'd expect (like the other day when I found a 10uf 450v cap in a spot that normally has a 47uf 200v cap). Goes pretty quick. I did a K7400 (about 40 caps) in under 30 mins yesterday. If you are doing a chassis with a large number of caps and are wondering if you got them all, just mark the top of all of them with a sharpie before you start.

I am sure Mod has done enough that he knows where each cap location is by memory.

Well, the experience does help when unsoldering caps from the bottom, as you tend to recognize the spots on those damn WG chassis that aren't screened on the bottom...
 
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