NeXT
Veteran Member
No. You are nitpicking.
I can look at any of my laserdisc players and belts aside it's a crapshoot weather or not they will actually work. Be it the 7820 or the V2600 both have capacitors that have long since past the point the capacitors were expected to still be in use. There are an infinite number of variables as to why one day they will bless me with the ability to watch Die Hard and the next the focus servo doesn't work because it lost its signal decoupling.
The fact that a Lloyds combination Hi-Fi from 1975 will work as-is and not hum too much is nothing short of a miracle, given how that was still the era when Japanese capacitors were absolute garbage. The fact I plugged an all-american 5 into the wall and it promptly smoked a resistor and fried a DC rectifier tube is an understanding those capacitors were long past the point of being capacitors. Yes, indeed there is still a lot of things out there where the capacitors are 40, 50 or even 60 years old and they are still within 5% of spec and will probably last decades more, but I'm replacing capacitors manufactured by Nichicon in 2009 which are already drifted too far out of tolerance.
If I want something to be reliable there is no alternative. If I'm butchering traces, that's my damn fault, but this was going to need to be done anyways.
I can look at any of my laserdisc players and belts aside it's a crapshoot weather or not they will actually work. Be it the 7820 or the V2600 both have capacitors that have long since past the point the capacitors were expected to still be in use. There are an infinite number of variables as to why one day they will bless me with the ability to watch Die Hard and the next the focus servo doesn't work because it lost its signal decoupling.
The fact that a Lloyds combination Hi-Fi from 1975 will work as-is and not hum too much is nothing short of a miracle, given how that was still the era when Japanese capacitors were absolute garbage. The fact I plugged an all-american 5 into the wall and it promptly smoked a resistor and fried a DC rectifier tube is an understanding those capacitors were long past the point of being capacitors. Yes, indeed there is still a lot of things out there where the capacitors are 40, 50 or even 60 years old and they are still within 5% of spec and will probably last decades more, but I'm replacing capacitors manufactured by Nichicon in 2009 which are already drifted too far out of tolerance.
If I want something to be reliable there is no alternative. If I'm butchering traces, that's my damn fault, but this was going to need to be done anyways.