SIDEARMS tech - missing capacitor?

[John Bennett]

[ukvac] SIDEARMS tech - missing capacitor?
hi - hope someone can help. I noticed on ebay, a sidearms board that had a
big fat blue capacitor in a place where mine has none. The space on my board
has what looks like pins that have been cut off and is labeled `CC1`.

My board works fine apart from not showing the top two or three pixels of
the screen, might the (perhaps) missing capacitor fix this? also could
anyone tell me what capacitor needs to go there?

I can send a jpeg image of a close up of my board for anyone who wants to
see the exact spot.

ta very much!
Dugan.



DATA Imported from archives: originally posted by Dugan Jackson (Djackson@igl.co.uk)

 

[pobtastic]

RE: [ukvac] SIDEARMS tech - missing capacitor?
>My board works fine

So what's the problem??? )

>apart from not showing the top two or three pixels of
>the screen

Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me! Have you tried adjusting the
vertical alignment on the monitor??? Not all games display in exactly the
same place...

>might the (perhaps) missing capacitor fix this? also could
>anyone tell me what capacitor needs to go there?

Well... It would probably be safer to your board to have this capacitor,
but (I assume) its only to stop spike voltages from harming the board when
you first turn it on. The capacitor (more than likely) is just for
smoothing out irregular voltages from the PSU.

Pobster
PS. I only replied because no-one else has, but you can always be sure of
at least 5 replies if you get something wrong...