Choose power supply for Time Capsule gen 2.

If you read the fine details..

Product name:  Internal 34W Time Capsule Power supply

Condition: USED, test work

What you are buying is a used power supply that is tested for 10sec to turn on.. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Sorry but you could not pay me to take it.. you will need to repair it in no time.. if not 10min after you turn it on and it gets hot and never works again.

Apple used two brands of power supplies.. Flextronics which 80% or so of the early TC got.. combined with lack of cooling and they died after 18months due to Capacitors in the supply overheating.

The other brand was Delta.. far superior design supply.. 90% of gen3 and gen4 TC got Delta supplies.. so what you want is a second hand Gen4 working or not.. they have a soldering fault but the power supplies are very good. Even a gen3 that has had a gentle life would be superior.. there are not many Delta in the supply channels for the obvious reason they don't break down.

I and many others have repair instructions if you want to fix your existing supply.

And as a BTW.. the hard disk could also be dead.. WD black they used in the Gen2 were a poor drive.

https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modems/apple-time-capsule-repair

The unit will at least power on.. and have a solid amber light.. and never complete the boot.. that is the sign the drive is dead but the power supply is working.. your problem is that it is dead.. I mean REALLY DEAD.. no flash even of light at turn on.. the power supply is completely gone..

Any chance you know where I can be looking for one of these Delta PSU's? Or a direct link to one?

Not at reasonable price no..

The last Delta I found for someone cost about $60 and I charged someone $50 for a spare I had.. that is without postage.

My recommendation is to buy a Gen4 TC if you want a cheap TC at all.. ebay or whatever local second hand markets you have. They are far superior to the Gen2 and a lot younger.. and mostly used Delta supplies.. and 2TB hard disk min.

Even if it goes faulty the fix is simple even with no tools more than a small philips head screw driver.. you just need to pull the board out and oven bake it.. (reflow the solder).

If you are concerned you have details on the hard disk of the TC.. then open it.. not hard to do.. as above .. you need a hair dryer and one small philips head screw driver.. pull out the hard drive.. and keep it.. or buy a USB to SATA adapter.. the cheapest ones are less than $10. Plug it into the Mac and wipe the drive.. put it all back together and sell it on eBay.. people will buy them just for parts.. or dispose of it in your local ewaste areas. But wiping the hard disk is essential if your bank details are there and you did not encrypt your Time machine backup.. it is relatively easy to access all your details from working drive with TM backup.

What is says and what the picture shows are different... That is just another Flextronics..

Also be suspicious as a lot of these are 30W not later 34W models.

Look at the ifixit A1409 (gen4 TC) strip down..

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Replace+AirPort+Time+Capsule+A1409+HDD/91818

The Delta power supply has a translucent plastic case.. with the shield over it.. Flextronics uses a black shiny plastic case.

You won't find any cheap.. Not if they are working.

A properly refurbished flextronics is ok.. but make sure the seller knows it is really refurbished.. I bought some cheap refurbished from China and they were no such thing. The mailing cost back to China means you will never return it.. and if it dies a week after they send it all the better.. you might buy another one.

Apple never supplied any spare parts for Time Capsules even to their own repairers.. so the only source is ones that failed testing, fell off the assembly line.. or were recovered from dead units sent in bulk back to China by Apple to be refurbished. And some enterprising individual emptied the dumpster for parts.

Yes.. Apple realised after the problems with the first one they under-rated the power supply.

But the Gen2 still had the problems with the power supply because they did not fix the bigger problem.. it runs too hot..

And there is no cooling because the fan never turns on.. (Steve Jobs personally got involved and refused to let them use the fan) unless it reaches reactor core meltdown. At which point it roars..

It does not have sufficient natural convention.. nor any holes.. to allow the fan to do much at all other than stir the hot air.. That is why we started modifying them.. adding external hole and turning on the fan permanently.. very crude but better than Apple did.

When they got to Gen4 they finally set the fan to run based on temperature using slow speed and gradually increasing if the temp did not come down. All the electronics for it is in Gen1.. just Steve had a renowned hate of fans. The design really needs more ventilation though.. the rubber base cover blocks the ports along the sides.. just trimming the base rubber will provide a huge improvement in cooling..

Personally I recommend you pull the rubber mat off completely and use feet say 5mm.. It is aluminium base pan and works great to help keep it cooler. Drilling out the holes will also give a big improvement.. just along the front.

NOTE: This removes the double insulation.. I am setting the height with such small feet to prevent people getting their fingers underneath..

I'm now thinking about switching out the bad components for some new ones, but I'm not sure what to buy

Sure I put it in the web page I created.. way way back.

https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modems/apple-time-capsule-repair/apple-time-capsule-repair-type2

The list of caps is

1x 470uf 16v (8x12mm) Must be replaced with same voltage. This supplies 12v to the controller chip. 

1x 470uf 6.3v (In the kit I usually supply another 16v cap. but this only needs 6.3v. size is important 8x12mm at most)

2x 1500uf 6.3v (10v would be better but they need to be 8x20mm, very high grade and high ripple type) 

They are all low ESR 105deg type. And they must be highest quality.

Where are you in the world?

Several repairers used to sell a kit of parts.. myself included. Most will have stopped since these things are now antique pieces.

Talk to me direct.. rayhav@gmail.com

Do carefully read all the instructions on the page I wrote because you MUST discharge those primary caps or face the consequences which are NASTY!!

LaPastenague has pretty much covered all the bases for you. Even if the hard drive might still be working, it would make no sense to think about replacing the Time Capsule power supply unless you also replace the hard drive as well.

While the Time Capsule is open, replace the hard drive if you have not already done so. If you haven't, a 10 year old hard drive is way overdue to fail.

Good luck.