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Zenith 12S245 - PhilcoPhan1936 - 04-27-2020

I’m rotating between 3 repair jobs, just finished restoring one of my own, and started on my only Zenith robot dial radio, a 12S245.
I’ve got most of the film caps replaced.
Rounding up the electrolytics.
My question is, it calls for 3x 10uF at 25v. All I have on hand are 10uF at 160v. Is the voltage rating too high to be safe to use? Should I order lower voltage rating replacements?

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RE: Zenith 12S245 - Eliot Ness - 04-27-2020

Those will be just fine Jeff.  A higher voltage rating on capacitors is OK, you just don't want to go lower.

Edit: I'm starting to restore the same 1204 chassis except mine is going into a 12-S-265 console cabinet. For those three capacitors, I ordered 10's @ 50-volt when I placed my order with mouser, but if the 160-volt caps would fit in the can, and I had them in stock, that's what I would have used. Most of the e-caps I have in that size are 450-volt so since I was ordering resistors to rebuild the candohm I ordered some lower voltage caps at the same time.

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