A 5.5 volt 0.047F cap is $4.99 Canadian funds in the Global Electronics catalog! Check the web site to ensure price and availability first at......www.globalsemi.com ! Happy New Years to all. Murray Brown WOSSCO Electronics www.wossco.com >From: gulftech@xxxxxxxx >Reply-To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [TechAssist] Toshiba VCR, M761, Loses memory after short power outage. FIX >Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:44:53 -0600 >>Friends, >>This is my own unit from home. I wrote about it in December 2002 or >2003. Since then, it had gotten worse to the point that it would lose >the time if power were interrupted more than a few seconds. >>Finally pulled it and brought it to the shop. Found C660, 0.047F, 6.3V >bad. Searched the internet to find a replacement, but having trouble >finding one. Found a possible Sony replacement, 988001601, but at almost >$23 my cost. Did find one on a junk board that is workable--not sure if >it is at full capacity--don't have something to measure that large a cap. > Anyway, it is working better than the old one. Will now hold for about >45 minutes. Used to hold for many hours. >>Good thing I finally brought in the unit. Wasin dire need of a cleaning >of heads and tape path. >>If someone has a good new cap or of a source for it, please contact me >privately at gulftech@xxxxxxxxx >>>Ken Smith >Gulf Technical Services >3034 Gulf Breeze Parkway >Gulf Breeze, FL 32563 >850-934-8324 (Voice), 850-932-0819 (fax) >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- >Lost Password: >http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". >Email Archives: >//www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/