I somehow made it through that era largely unscathed. I remember a lot of time looking over mobos for bulging capacitors though. Thanks for taking me back.
Remember the caps issue well. Apples first base station contained a Lucent RG1000 motherboard inside a case that only Johnny Ive could have designed. No vent holes!
The enclosure cooked the Lelon Caps to perfection after about 13 months. Thankfully, swapping the Lelon capacitors for real Rubycon ones was relatively simple as was adding some ventilation holes into the case.
Johnny Ive would have been horrified but once ventilation holes were added, the Lucent gear inside the case no longer got as hot, especially if the modem was in use.
Would agree, STLs aren’t really CAD. Sort of like how gerbers aren’t the same thing as native EDA files.
I somehow made it through that era largely unscathed. I remember a lot of time looking over mobos for bulging capacitors though. Thanks for taking me back.
Remember the caps issue well. Apples first base station contained a Lucent RG1000 motherboard inside a case that only Johnny Ive could have designed. No vent holes!
The enclosure cooked the Lelon Caps to perfection after about 13 months. Thankfully, swapping the Lelon capacitors for real Rubycon ones was relatively simple as was adding some ventilation holes into the case.
Johnny Ive would have been horrified but once ventilation holes were added, the Lucent gear inside the case no longer got as hot, especially if the modem was in use.