Capacitor? I hardly know her.

// ? I recently switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. One thing I found out while moving over is that the workflow for this blog is too complicated. This has nothing to to with the topic at hand but I wanted to mention it somewhere. //

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1: Intro

A while ago I bought a

Squeezebox Classic

. It didn't work because everything I buy is broken and most things I own stay that way for some time until I get around to fixing it.

// The original Blog-Post has a video here. Here's the alt-text instead: A video of a Squeezebox Classic in a bootloop as described. The device has a glossy front with a green matrix display on the upper half and the logitech logo printed on the lower half. //

As you can see I'm bad at framing Videos. But more important the Squeezebox works fine until I try to play back music and it reboots, forgetting its language settings in the process. Then it tries and fails again. This basically goes on forever until I pull the power plug.

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When doing some research on the issue I quickly found two Blog posts on

// Joe's Technology Blog //

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one Post from November 2018

that outlines general repair troubleshooting of a Squeezebox Classic and

another one from December 2019

that talks about recapping the device.

// ?? Vielen dank Joe für die Posts, die haben mir einen haufen Arbeit erspart. //

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According to Joe the issue my Squeezebox has are caused by the DAC not working correctly. When the other components on the device detect a problem with it, they trigger a Reboot. That means a capacitor replacement is in order. (you can find more details on his blog under

// Issue 4: Crashing Instead Of Playback Starting //

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The process of replacing capacitors on aging electronics either as preventive measure or to fix a specific issue is often shortened as

// recapping //

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. And that's what we're doing today. I never did that on a device with surface mount components, so I'm prepared to rip off some pads. That's called foreshadowing.

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