Some years back I found this Lacie Edmini V2 at the dump, only thing wrong with it was the boiled Samxon Gf's in the powersupply. Checked the hdd and it only had 16 hours of use, I have only used it maybe for 30 hours now and last night I decided to do a complete backup and format the drive.
I remembered it had a Seagate 320GB drive so today I thought I could check and see if the drive had the famous firmware problems which it did not.
Anyway, had a look at the main board and got a little surprise.
It had a Powerstor aerogel series B 2.5V cap that must have failed last night.
Managed to get it off and clean the board with crc contact cleaner and a brush.
According to the datasheet the Powerstor should be 1F and I had non to replace it with, I did notice digikey sells these today.
The two Samxon Gk measured fine but think I will replace them with ZL.
There is no battery to keep time on the board so I guess the Powerstor is used for that and that it will work just fine without it ?
If it is, how long will the cap keep time before it needs to be recharged ?
Suggestions on that ? maybe a cr2032 will do the same job ?
Using the esr meter it first measured it to 54 ohm ... ..
I remembered it had a Seagate 320GB drive so today I thought I could check and see if the drive had the famous firmware problems which it did not.
Anyway, had a look at the main board and got a little surprise.
It had a Powerstor aerogel series B 2.5V cap that must have failed last night.
Managed to get it off and clean the board with crc contact cleaner and a brush.
According to the datasheet the Powerstor should be 1F and I had non to replace it with, I did notice digikey sells these today.
The two Samxon Gk measured fine but think I will replace them with ZL.
There is no battery to keep time on the board so I guess the Powerstor is used for that and that it will work just fine without it ?
If it is, how long will the cap keep time before it needs to be recharged ?
Suggestions on that ? maybe a cr2032 will do the same job ?
Using the esr meter it first measured it to 54 ohm ... ..
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