"Matt Mc_Carthy" wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (09 Jul 03  01:41:45)
 --- on the topic of "VCR"

 MM> 07 Jul 2003, 22:44, MIKE ROSS (1:167/133), wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 MR>  Toshiba likes to mount 85'C caps right next to
 MR> heatsinks.

 MM> Those board layouts continue to amaze me.  Makes me think that the
 MM> engineer, designer, draftsman, whatever who designed the board layout
 MM> had no idea what a capacitor does in real life.  Handled them simply
 MM> as symbols on a drawing, nothing more.   :-((

IMHO it's unlikely, these things are designed by teams of engineers. Not
to be too cynical but one might wonder if the board wasn't revised to
include some longterm failure mechanism.

What I do when space permits is to simply flip the electro to the under
side of the board. I did that to the old vcr's fluorescent display DC-DC
converter module circuit. This circuit had a tendency to cook electros
to a crisp. I haven't needed to replace any electros in there since and
amazed routine testing showed they were still fine. What a difference in
reliability simply relocating a part can make!

 Mike
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