Editing Acorn Archimedes A3010 Capacitor Guide (section)

== Is the A3010 a recap candidate? ==

The A3010 main board uses '''through-hole (leaded) aluminium electrolytics with surface-mount ceramic decouplers'''. It has no surface-mount electrolytic capacitors on the main board, so it is not affected by the surface-mount electrolyte leakage of the later Acorn machines (the [[Acorn Archimedes A5000|A5000]], the A4 laptop and the Risc PC).<ref name="stardot">[https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10675 "Which Acorn machines leak"], Stardot forums.</ref> The main corrosion problem is instead the '''NiCd backup battery''' (see the [[Acorn Archimedes A3010 Maintenance Guide]]).

Surface-mount electrolytics do appear in one place: the '''audio hybrid card''' beside the mini-podule slot, which is the usual cause of sound crackle.<ref name="stardotaudio">[https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23343 "A3010/A4000 audio hybrid crackle"], Stardot forums.</ref>