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The time capsule power supplies are proving short lived with many now failing after 18months
of operation. The supply is very specially designed to fit the space and is filled with silicon goop to
prevent components moving. As a result the supply is well neigh impossible to repair.
Symptoms of bad supply are pretty simply. The on light maybe flickers then nothing. It may
have been getting harder to start over a few weeks or months. Now it won’t start at all.
Rather than repair I chose to simply replace the internal supply with an external one.
You can find plenty of pics on the web of
how to pull it apart. I don’t want to repeat
that so please just look it up. I got these
pics from one of those sites.
http://www.hardmac.com/articles/79/
page1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
24254876@N03/sets/
72157604011791554/
In brief...Remove the rubber bottom with
a heat gun to prevent tearing it. Undo the
small philips head screws, then lift the
metal can being careful with the fan
cable. Disconnect the fan so the base unit
is completely free. Remove the hdd and
power supply.