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   ðŸŒˆðŸ’�🌻🌺🌹🌻ðŸ’�🌷🌺🌈 Jen 🌈ðŸ’�🌻🌺🌠  
   ðŸŒ»ðŸ’�🌷🌺🌈 D ershmenderde   
   nden...den-den *jazz hands*   
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   ’�🌷🌺🌈 wrote:   
   > I pulled out two others of the same exact card that had failed and I   
   > stashed away in the studio.   
   >   
   > One I had started to repair and stopped because a new card had arrived.   
   > That one just required two replacement 470uF caps to be soldered onto the   
   > board.  Whether it has the 7805 regulator issue is yet to be determined.   
   >   
   > The other card is the original one I bought.  It suffers from a few   
   > problems still.  It's 470uF power caps were definitely leaking and etched   
   > out the PC board so now I'm reverse engineering the circuit of the non-   
   > etched board and writing down a schematic.  One of the SMD caps fell off,   
   > so I have to dig up a replacement and glue a new solder pad down onto the   
   > board.  I've already conformal-coated the exposed copper that needed it.   
   > Once I get the schematic figured out, I will rebuild the traces how they   
   > should be and hopefully, one or both of my spare cards will be OK to use   
   > if there's ever another sound card disaster.   
   >   
   > I believe that leaky cap card was when I first learned about badcaps.net   
   > and why skimping on component costs is a terrible business practice.   
   >   
      
   you can make a house of cards, that would be the best use. you   
   put two cards vertically standing against each other, then next   
   to them another two and you top them off with a ceiling.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)