Perception 100
Please tell me the internal frame is not plastic ... James
Perception 100
Please tell me the internal frame is not plastic ... James
@Slanted_and_EnchantedHello - thanks to kingkorg and everyone else who contributed to this thread!
I just bought a perfect used AKG p420 for $50 specifically to do this excellent mod. Based on what I read on the previous pages and not having any appropriate spare capacitors on hand, I decided to order three surface mount capacitors from digikey, 470pf to solder in, in parallel -- (I referenced the link a few pages back (p16 by @ccaudle -- I ordered three because shipping was an order of magnitude greater than the cost of the capacitors and I felt it couldn't hurt to have a couple of spares or can give to a friend who may want to try the mod).
So my question: literally all the videos and pictures I've seen of this mod have all been through-hole capacitors and not surface mount. I've never dealt with surface mount. In the package, the ones I ordered look nothing like the surface mounts already on the board or others I have seen. They don't even look like the picture on digikey (I'll attach). It's just a piece of plastic with a bit of metal on the underside. Unless the plastic is basically a container for the capacitor which has to be removed from it to then work with, I'm not sure what's going on here -- I suspect something along these lines, but I'm not sure. They are very tiny.
I will post a screenshot of the caps I ordered which has a photo of what they're supposed to look like (but don't appear to look like at all...).
Please forgive me as I am a novice to this. Thank you.
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They don't even look like the picture on digikey (I'll attach). It's just a piece of plastic with a bit of metal on the underside. Unless the plastic is basically a container for the capacitor which has to be removed from it to then work with, I'm not sure what's going on here -- I suspect something along these lines, but I'm not sure. They are very tiny.
I just bought a perfect used AKG p420 for $50 specifically to do this excellent mod.
So my question: ...
Every SMT ceramic cap I have dealt with looks just like those pictures you attached.They don't even look like the picture on digikey
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