I picked up one of those new old stock "magic pack" Amiga's from Amiga Technologies. It seems to work fine, but I was wondering if these also need to be recapped? Or is it just the older "Commodore" Amiga 1200's?
Thanks.
I read a while back on another forum that the SMD electrolytic caps in those NOS A1200's should be fine and do not need replacing. The reason given was that because they were stored and had never been used the caps will not have deteriorated or leaked. Obviously they'll be some real science behind this, but because they had not been electrically active it preserved them. This was my understanding of it.
What you can do for sure is to inspect the motherboard. Look at the solder joints on all of the capacitors. Any dull joints (even slightly dull) are a sign of electrolyte leakage. All joints should be nice and shiny. First sign of any dull joints I would recommend getting the whole board re-capped. But until then....
'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'.
