My First Cap Kit

gustavas007

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I have always been scared to do a cap kit because I have never soldered. I did my dk jr monitor. and now it works again. Thanks to my local electronic repair shop for teaching me how!

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excellent to hear.

now you are an expert:D

sanyo's can be one of the harder chassis to do. great job for your first monitor.

to tell the truth a sanyo was my first one as well.

also picks of it working or it diffident happen;)

Peace
Buffett
 
Getting it out and ready to replace parts, and then putting it back together was by far way harder then actually replacing the capacitors. I'm pretty sure there is no way of doing this without cutting a few wires and then having to put them back together.

anyone have a dk jr marquee for sale?

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you can remove a sanyo monitor completely from the cab and then the chassis and the neck board from the monitor frame with out cutting any wires.

if you cut wires you should not have. make sure they are solder back together.

Peace
Buffett
 
I have my first chassis ready to go for cap kit... any advice on the soldering side? Im in the same situation as you where I don't have much experience soldering. Any advice is appreciated!
 
take your time and watch the pads on a sanyo. they are small and you can bridge them easy with big solder blobs.

also re-flow your fly, header pins, width coil, vr, width coil, the 3 transistors, and the big power resisters on the neck board and main chassis.

that will help it and remove some hidden cold solder joints.

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Buffett
 
In most cases there is absolutely no point using flux for through hole components, the flux in the solder should be more than sufficient.
 
Congrats on your first cap kit!!I have found that fixing suff yourself in this hobby is a much more satisying feeling than trying to buy replacemt parts that may or may not work..or waiting on someone else to repair it and send it back. Now onto main board repairs. ;)
 
Good stuff man. I was very fortunate to have an Arcade buddy come over and help me do my first cap kit, which was a Sanyo EZ as well. I am still nervous to do them alone, but eventually I'll grow a pair ;)
 
I have my first chassis ready to go for cap kit... any advice on the soldering side? Im in the same situation as you where I don't have much experience soldering. Any advice is appreciated!

+1 on what Buffett said

Do not leave the soldering iron tip on a trace pad too long, it can lift and damage trace pad.

I use 91% Isopropyl alcohol to clean up the chassis as I replace caps or parts. Helps clean up solder splash and flux. Also, I check continuity with a meter for the capacitors or other parts changed out to connecting components on the chassis as I go. And every area on the solder side of the chassis that I clean as I go, I check and inspect for scraped traces, cracks, etc.

On a Sanyo 20ez, I also meter the B+ and adjust to 108v after a cap kit.
 
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