Tims Retro Corner | Amiga 500 "Power Light Comes On" Repair Part 2 @TimsRetroCorner | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
This broken Amiga 500 I bought from eBay was described as "the power light comes on." Last time we discovered an exploded capacitor and a leaky battery. Today it's time to clean it and fix it up...

Blog: timsretrocorner.com
Music: A Night of Dizzy Spells by Eric Skiff - ericskiff.com/music

00:00 - Introduction
01:02 - Cleaning outdoors
04:40 - Soak in vinegar
07:40 - Recapping - removing the old caps
13:32 - Solder in the new capacitors
15:21 - Replacing the trapdoor header
17:56 - Unsolder the old connector
19:46 - Solder in the new connector
20:29 - Bodge Wire
22:26 - Magic Smoke test
23:04 - Let’s run something
26:23 - Final words