GuitarZoo

Ahhhh, yes, indeed, it is simply the English wording that had me confused. The missing (pertinent) terms are "the one capacitor", as in; " . . . and only (the one capacitor) marked with green lines solved it." The post also states; "Yes, it was the capacitors." (and not, "Yes, it was one capacitor, even though I replaced several."), again, leading me to believe that it was MORE than one capacitor that was at fault. My bad.... ;-) Looking for or expecting too much clarity and specificity here perhaps? Onward; Opened up my own errant Pocket POD unit that is making a LOUD "motorboating" (common electronics term, easily Googled) / thumping / pulsing rhythmic putt-putt sound through the headphone output. The three noted caps in the image in the above post, the one marked with the green X, as well as the two marked with red Xes, are all bulging, puffed & swollen with some substance actually appearing to have leaked out of the top of two of the caps. Obviously bad or on their way out. Just ordered a bag of 50 new 1,000uf 6.3v electrolytic capacitors from eBay in order to replace these three caps (as marked in the image here). (The bag was under $6 bucks, including shipping.) Should be a fairly easy repair as there is plenty of room on this little PC board. I'll return with results, though I'm pretty sure (as EvilWish above stated) that this will cure the pulsing motorboating sound coming through the headphone out. Chalking this up to normal capacitor degradation over time, and a $10 or $20 repair is not bad for a (still) useful tool of this age. Here is a shot of my own Pocket POD board with the errant three caps marked out.

Recently got a Pocket Pod & am having this rhythmic "motorboating" noise through the headphone output. Mine is quite loud. I tried DLing the example PP_noise.mp3 from the above post, but it was dead quiet. No apparent noise at all. Mine is VERY evident and I'm hoping that a cap (or two?) replacement will fix it. Another thing seems to be that EvilWish (above) mentions replacing caps (plural), but I only see one marked. Is there another capacitor on this board that needs to be replaced? Mark them perhaps, with values? Thanks!