One of the best parts about having retro gear pass through your hands is the chance to document it and do a little preventative maintenance. Lovely little through-hole capacitors! Here’s my list for the NetComm Mega-i-Modem, aka CD2004. There’s a few models of this fellow; mine was a very late 2008 (!) unit. Check what’s actually fitted to your board before ordering replacements, including polarity, capacitance, voltage rating, ESR, ripple-current requirements and physical size.

The part numbers at the end of the rows identify the listed replacements. ‘Baby sushi’ was my shorthand for the tiny ones whose dimensions I didn’t record; I think they were roughly 11 mm high and 4 mm wide from memory. Measure yours before ordering.

The underside reads NetComm CD2004 Mega i 56K Modem, F/W: 3CC4, APN: 9317773009682, S/N: 80600697N0436. The power adapter I used was 9 VAC, 800 mA.

The formatting isn’t too web friendly. Copy the raw text out and paste it into a non-rich text editor such as Notepad or TextEdit in plain-text mode and you’ll probably be fine. 😄

 

Netcomm Mega-i-Modem - Model CD2004
11 capacitors

470uF	16V	12mm (h) x 7mm (w)		EEUFR1C471
470uF	16V	12mm (h) x 7mm (w)		EEUFR1C471
470uF	16V	12mm (h) x 7mm (w)		EEUFR1C471
470uF	16V	12mm (h) x 7mm (w)		EEUFR1C471
470uF	16V	12mm (h) x 7mm (w)		EEUFR1C471

100uF	16V	12mm (h) x 5mm (w)		EEUFR1C101
100uF	16V	12mm (h) x 5mm (w)		EEUFR1C101
100uF	16V	12mm (h) x 5mm (w)		EEUFR1C101

1uF	50V	Baby sushi			50YXJ1M5X11

10uF	25V	Baby sushi			EEUFR1H100	Upgraded to 50V
10uF	25V	Baby sushi			EEUFR1H100	Upgraded to 50V

On other fronts, it’s been a busy past few months with life continuing to tick on getting in the way of retro videos. I have parted with almost all of my retro collection now. I am now fully invested in the MiSTer project, powered by the Terasic DE10-Nano.

Looking forward to the Saturn core work being done. It was unfortunate to lose the PlayStation core from active development. That’s OK, we can always look forward to it being completed one day. Not today, maybe not any time soon - but one day. Thanks laxer3a for your work! 😊