Sega GameGear Capacitor Replacement Kit
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Step Five:
Now that you are familiar with the two types of aluminum electrolytic capacitors in the system it is time
to start replacing them; however this is tricky. Removing the surface mount capacitors requires some
patience and a delicate touch.
Picture Eight: Improper removal of a surface mounting capacitor
Please study picture eight for a moment and notice that CC104 and CC103 have been removed. Do you
notice how the contact pointed out by the blue arrow looks different than the other three? This is
because it has been damaged by improper removal of the CC104 capacitor and is now ruined. While it is
hypothetically possible that this can be repaired in most cases this unit may not be salvageable.
Please, please use caution and don’t let this happen! Using our strategies this can be avoided.
1)
Do not pry the old capacitors off ever.
2)
Use a soldering iron with a very narrow tip to unsolder the surface mount capacitors. The proper
place to unsolder is shown in picture nine above. In this fashion the capacitor can be safely
peeled off the board and the contacts can be preserved.
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Contact destroyed due to
improper capacitor
removal
Good contacts ready for
soldering
Place tip of soldering iron
here
