TECH: Capacitor Bridging +5 and GND

melchman

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I have a Konami Scramble Boardset. SOmeone has soldered a 16V 15,000uF capacitor across pins 17 and 18 on the parts side. Effectively placing it in the +5V path.

Why?

I am guessing this is similar to the capacitor across +5V on Galaga boards?
 
Probably because the board was intermittently crashing and they were too lazy to recap the power supply.
 
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