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AWE64 Value CT4500 Recap recommendation

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First post, by aapuzzo

Posted on 2024-05-19, 01:38

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I see Console5 has a kit for the ct4540 but not for the CT4500. I'm really good at soldering when I have a kit handed to me and just learning how to select my own components. The only thing that stands out to me on this board is it uses 2 different types of 1uf 50v caps.

I found a great video on Youtube of somebody recapping the Other Awe64 Value card and he gave a parts list however those parts are also slightly different and doesn't use the 1uf caps.

Here is a basic count of all the capacitors on my CT4500. I could have miscounted a few of the common ones but I'll buy plenty of extras. Do I have to watch out for any of the caps on this board or can I just audio grade on everything if available and be safe? Normally I would get low ESR if available and that will be my default? I don't mind paying more &'m not going to split hairs on saving $20 with my time input. Can I really go wrong anywhere on this board? They are just 85c -40 caps and what I get would be better.

1uf 50v x 2
1uf 50v different x 4
4.7uf 50v x 23
10uf 16v x 2
47uf 16v x 2
100uf 16v x 4
470uf 16v x 2

Reply 1 of 2, by remindercor

Posted on 2024-08-09, 11:07

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https://archive.org/details/sound-blaster-awe-64-ct-4500

do anyone have a old datasheet of Nichicon M715 , rubycon M9179 et al? Any datasheet like "proposal of deletion from old catalog series" like this?

https://datasheet.datasheetarchive.com/origin … CANS15-5407.pdf

I am specially worried in the case of caps for audio lines

CAPACITOR BRAND REFERENCE Capacity V Temp
c29 elgen 4.7u 50V 40
c30 Nichicon M715 1u 50V 85
C37 Nichicon M715 1u 50V 85

c45 Rubycon 1M719 4.7u 50V
c61 elgen 4.7u 50V
c46 elgen 4.7u 50V
c62 elgen 4.7u 50V
c47 Rubycon M9719 4.7u 50V
c49 Rubycon M9719 ce 85 4.7u 50V
c52 elgen 4.7u 50V
c54 elgen 4.7u 50V
c55 Rubycon 1M9719 4.7u 50V
c56 elgen 4.7u 50V

c31 elgen 4.7u 50V
c38 Rubycon 1M9719 4.7u 50V

c40 elgen 4.7u 50V
c41 elgen 4.7u 50V
c131 elgen 4.7u 50V
c43 elgen 4.7u 50V

c57 Nichicon M715 1u 50V
C58 Nichicon M715 1u 50V
C60 Nichicon M715 1u 50V

C66 Rubycon 1M9719 4.7u 50V
c67 Elgen 4.7u 50V

c82 M9723 4.7u 50V
c84 elgen ECO 03 100uf 16v
c83 Nichicon M729 100uf 16v

c85 Nichicon 47u 16V
c86 Nichicon 100uf 16v
c87 Nichicon 100uf 16v
c88 Nichicon 47u 16V

c92 Nichicon 1u 50V
C93 elgen 4.7u 50v
c103 Nichicon 1uV 50v
c102 elgen 4.7u 50V

c108 Nichicon M715 1u 50V

c104 elgen "M Ven" 470u 16V
c105 elgen "M Ven" 470u 16V

c10 Rubycon 1M9703 10y 16
c35 Rubycon 1M9703 10y 16

Reply 2 of 2, by lti

Posted on 2024-09-01, 23:22

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M715 and M9719 are just the date codes. Those caps are probably too small to have a series marked on them. From eyeballing the cap size in the picture on archive.org, I'm guessing that the Nichicon caps are SA series and the Rubycon caps are MS7 series.

That's interesting that they all seem to have different caps loaded - one has six 1uF 50V, one has seven, and one doesn't have any. The 1uF caps are probably only different because Creative used whatever caps they could get. None of them are audio grade, and I don't think anyone has ever been able to hear a difference between normal and audio caps, even on ultra-high-end equipment. Any caps you can get will work here as long as they physically fit, and the Rubycon and Nichicon caps might still be fine.

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