this fella sold me a kit of caps for my spectras
and yup Astros have the same issue
AI4JI Spectra Repair and Modifications
David is a brilliant technician. Worked with him for a few months. He wrote the bible on rrecapping Spectras.
Astro Spectras share many of the same RF parts and control heads, and many of the leaky cap problems. To the O/P, remember these radios are at newest 10 years old (IIRC 2Q 2006 was the last order date for Astro Spectra anything), most are 15 or more.
Another thing to watch out for is "EEPROM wear". Yes, EEPROMs do wear out, and these radios do lots of background writing to EEPROMs when they are operating (e.g. updating control channel registration tables, scan lists, last zone/channel when powered up, etc). While Motorola used top quality ATMEL EEPROM chips (unlike the modern Chinese turd radios with garbage that fail after 100 write cycles), they do approach their MTBF of 1,000,000 writes in 20 years of daily use.
FAIL 01/82s that occur for no reason at all, or after writing a codeplug with no other issues usually point to this. Usually means you will need to replace that chip. Not terribly expensive, but it does require good soldering equipment and skill.
Just thought I'd mention that, I've had about 12 Astro Spectra and XTS3000s come across my bench in the last few months that needed this to get going.
