Amiga Capacitor change

[AmigaEd]

3-Any other advice

Other than changing out the "Barrel" battery... my rule is if it isn't broke don't fix it.

Also, as ElPollo points out, source good caps. There are a lot of bad caps floating around out there and it's causing havoc throughout the world. I know of several companies that had to make masive recalls of equipment just to replace the caps. Story has it that some bloke in China stole a formula for dielectric from some other company, got it wrong and now there are lots of caps circulating around which have bad dielectric and short life spans. Especially shjort life span when used in high temp environments.

[AmigaEd]

Anyone know what be good iron wattage for cap changes?.

This kind of depends more on what the cap is attached to, rather than the cap itself. A low power iron of 15 Watts will work fine for most repairs but if you get a component that is connected to a large ground plane or power buss it can often take a bit more power. A little extra power is also sometimes helpful if you are trying to desolder with solder wick.

My advice would be to get an Iron that has a variable temperature control and a maximum wattage of 40 to 60 watts. I know 40 to 60 watts sounds like a lot but with the variable control you can turn it way down when needed. I think you'll find that a variable temperature Iron won't cost all that much more than fixed temperature iron.

Regards,
AmigaEd