HR-10 - HW-16 repair

[Neil Morrison]

Remembering that electro's are usually -20/+50% anyway.

Neil Morrison

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Knapp" <kc8jx at YAHOO.COM>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: HR-10 - HW-16 repair


> Thomas - Replacing the electrolytics in the HW-16 with the same value
would be
> certainly OK...I was of the school of thought that perhaps increasing the
> capacitance would allow for better regulation, less hum...etc.  Always
believed
> that and did that in my receivers and transmitters.  Within the past few
months
> Electric Radio has had a great series of articles about repair of
receivers
> (four part series) - transmitter series is upcoming.  One thing that was
> discussed was power supply capacitance in receivers.  Since I do not have
the
> article here at work, but I believe the author said that one should
replace the
> capaitors with the same value as the rest of the electronics is expecting
that
> kind of regulation voltage...etc.  A larger capacitor could damage the
rest of
> the circuits.  Obviously sometimes one cannot find the "exact" replacement
but
> something close enough (I personally would go slightly higher) should be
OK.
>
> Good luck.  Larry, KC8JX  St. Joseph, Mi

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