Happy you are back and hope your are fully recovered soon. The main difference between tantalum and aluminum electrolytics is the volume per farad, tantalums are just physically smaller for a given value. Thank you for sharing this repair with us.
I love it, volume per farad, that's just great. In my experience they exhibit worse ESR than electrolytic caps though. I am doing pretty well. Still get tired easy but better every day. Thanks for watching.
Damn tantalums - I refer to them as hand grenades because they have a bad habit of going BANG! Only a few days ago I restored a Fluke 8800A bench multimeter to working condition that had a couple of shorted tantalums in it.
@@AERVBlog I enjoy your videos because I repair and maintain radio broadcast equipment as well. There's not too many channels on here that show what we do. Pleased to hear you're on the mend as well!
@@AERVBlog There's not a lot of broadcast gear that is serviceable now. I like the older gear from the 80s and early 90s because it's designed to be repaired. Most of the modern stuff is all multi-layer boards with SMD so small you can hardly see it. I am fortunate that the stations I engineer for also like the old stuff!
@@sw6188 so true but SMD parts are replaceable with the right equipment. The big problem now is the lack of service manuals and schematics. Also so much is done with FPGAs or micro controllers that even if you can work on SMD stuff you will never get hold of the programming needed if something goes out.
