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Unfortunately no working scope. I do have a cheapo esr meter. I could just remove the cap and see but at that point might as well...

Do you have a scope or a fast sampling DMM that will record what is happening with the +12V supply? From your description there...

Wow! Pictures please! I’ve never seen one in real life. My school used standard apple II’s. Closest I’ve ever been was one on auction...

For a collector, the B&H / Darth Vader models just represent rarity ontop of rarity. It's also not an Apple II clone like a Franklin or...

No tantalums on the board. Lukes kits come with all the electrolytics on the board. I don’t remember if the safety caps are included...

I haven’t looked at the schematics, but can anyone tell me off the top of their head what rail in the power supply is the power LED on...

I recap when problems show up, but that means you need to fire up the thing every 6 months or so to make sure it works.

The IIgs doesn't use any of those awful surface mount caps that are always leaking on the beige macs and amigas. For what it's worth...

I concur. I recapped my ROM 03 just because and I have done tons of recapping (mostly monitors but some computers as well) but it still...

There are lots of kneejerk recappers around here. My opinion is recapping working systems runs the small chance of screwing them up in...

Ya, I’ve got only 1 svideo cable but it’s case around the plug is too thick to fit into the keyboard so I’ll just wait rather than force...

You can use an S-Video cable in place of the ADB cable until the new cable arrives.

Thanks to the generosity and knowledge of all of you, the machine is up and running. I’m still waiting on a keyboard cable to be...

Hey all! Up and running! Original caps. But I notice that the green slanted LED is pretty dim compared to the one on the monitor and...

Anyone know of any good DVD burners that can convert say .avi or mp4 files and burn to DVD? I had a nice little freeware program on my...