Capacitors - In or Out?

[Ed Tanton]

I consider adding capacitors to be utterly WASTED effort-IF you would be
doing so because the originals are sufficiently dried out that hum is a
problem. If old-age-drying-out is the problem, and IF you only put salve on
the problem without actually FIXING it, they are on their way to giving you
the 'privilege' of not only replacing your bad capacitors, but finding and
replacing the power transformer as well, when those capacitors arc and burn
up the transformer.

I recall the article, but not the reason that author gave for the
additional capacitors. The only time you would consider such an action is
if the original capacitors were marginal WHEN NEW-or worse-and that's the
cause of the hum.

Don't feel bad about any question-we all had to start sometime.


73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy at earthlink.net>

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