[time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors (was Capacitor Failures)

[bownes]

Don't forget to scare up the appropriate programmer. Those are getting hard to come by too. 



On Oct 22, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com> wrote:

> I don't believe the parts are failing due to structural
> problems, but rather are just leaking down their buried charge.
> 
> It should be quite possible to refresh them by erasing them and
> reprogramming.
> 
> -Chuck Harris
> 
> Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Find pin compatible replacement EPROM's while you still can. They don't make all those small / slow / multiple supply
>> / parts any more.  Saves building all sorts of strange adapter boards as well as re-shooting the memories.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>>> In message<1498648302.205602.1287785250803.JavaMail.root at sz0110a.emeryville.ca .mail.comcast.net>,
>>> k6rtm at comcast.net writes:
>>> 
>>>> What to do? Pop out the parts and rewrite them? Dump them to disk as well?
>>> 
>>> Make backup-copies while they have no problems.
>>> 
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