[D-community-offtopic] Building computer - power supplies

[Chris Bannister]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 03:02:05PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 00:35 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 09:26:31AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > FWIW I tried to repair it using a soldering iron at home, the friend
> > > tried it using a professional _unsolder_ iron station at home and it
> > > ended that the friend repaired it at work, using hot air soldering.
> > > The board is from good quality, but anyway, repairing it at home is hard
> > > to do, even with a professional _unsolder_ iron station. Hobby engineers
> > > likely will damage the board, when they try to replace the borked
> > > capacitors.
> > 
> > Huh? Just recently changed a power supply capacitor really easily using
> > a cheap soldering iron + solder sucker.
> 
> But not for a Behringer Eurorack UB2442FX-Pro with a PSU of the same
> revision as is mounted in my mixer. I'm experienced in soldering, I
> soldered Brauner microphones, top studio gear, not to mention that I
> started soldering as a child and soldered for many professional audio
> and video studios and when I needed to replace the capacitor I already
> was a few years older than 40, so a little bit experienced.

Yeah, sorry I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. I can
only think that I somehow thought that you were inferring that all 
PSU's now needed professional gear.

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