[GreenKeys] Rectifier voltage question...

[Peter Gottlieb]

Capacitors are always a problem. If it’s not drying out electrolytics it’s leaky paper caps, oxidizing silver mica types or shorting tantalums. 


Peter

> On Sep 19, 2019, at 2:15 PM, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-
>> bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Jeffrey Angus
>> Sent: 19 September 2019 18:58
>> To: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Rectifier voltage question...
>> 
>>> On 9/19/19 12:45 PM, Dave Wade wrote:
>>> Why don't we get issues on the baby?
>>> 
>>> Dave
>> Luck.
>> 
> 
> We have been running it about three days a week for the last 20 years so I
> think it is more than "luck"....
> ... I suspect that the lack of problems are down to continual use.
> 
> I also think that the caps you find in commercial equipment are rather
> better specified than those in commercial equipment.
> How many on here have old tube equipment that they haven't re-capped? 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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