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Finally closing up the "Cubo" #AmigaCD32. I was procrastinating this for years, happy that I can finally stop worrying about leakage on these boards. I'll tackle the remaining A600 motherboards in time, but they've already got their caps removed and were cleaned, so no hurry. #recapping

And here is the last #Amiga in "urgent" need of recapping (I do have other A600 motherboards in unknown state, but those have had their caps removed long ago). This is another #AmigaCD32, in the "Cubo CD32" variant, which is nothing else than a standard CD32 with a jamma adapter.
Was expecting this unit to be the worse of all and yet it is probably the one with the least leakage. I wonder if the hundreds hours of running time kept them in a better shape.
There is some slight corrosion on the expansion connector, caused by something that dropped on it (you can see some traces in photo). Oh, and audio cap polarity was already correct!

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I haz color! #AmigaCD32

It was the video encoder. Removing it I noticed the nearby caps really did a number leaking their juice under there: even though I clipped the legs of the old chip before removing it, two (unconnected) pads followed the legs when I swept the iron on them to desolder them...

Hmm, no color output on this #AmigaCD32, be it through composite or SVideo. And also weird noise in the picture too.
It's weird, I would suspect the CXA1145 encoder, but I see activity on the chroma out, and also on the chroma pin of the SVideo connector. And yep, the pin 7 of the encoder is at 0, so it should encode for PAL.
Advice from #amiga experts before I try to mod this unit to use a CXA2075?

Time to begin the #recapping on one of the two #AmigaCD32 .
There is some leakage from the SMD caps here, but it seems minor for now. Two of the through hole caps are bulging though, and one seems to be expelling its contents from the top.