Reply 50440 of 52976, by marbury
H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-09-19, 07:47:Is that a Varta battery near the back of that chassis? In that case, hopefully it hasn't leaked ...
Pretty sure it didn't. According to the description he changed it as well. And he even provides a close-up. Looks fine and even new to me. JP 10 and 11 look a bit crooked. But I don't mind that. Might have been from the start or would easily be fixable...SNI has good reputation but I was never that impressed tbh. Seen a lot of their machines because for a long time every German office had mainly these. Yeah, they also just use water to cook. As for the ebayer. He provides a lot of pictures. with loads of close-ups, system status reports for everything that can be tested. In contrast. There are currently 5 or 6 auctions for this model on German eBay starting at ~900Euro and going up to 2700Euro. They all have either just one picture or the inside photo they took shows a pile of dust and dirt. So this one looks so good it's almost too good to be true. But this ebayer has good reputation and even after looking at it like 20 times it looks legit. He even sent pics of the packaging process. We'll see...Expect the worse, hope for the best. Wish me luck please.
I will disassemble it the moment it arrives. Luckily the board has just a couple of tantalum caps which look fine in the close-ups . So the only caps to really worry about are those in the PSU. But if those are broken I have some lying around here I can use.
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