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Help to identify condenser in Philco 39-116
morzh
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04-29-2020, 12:49 PM
I am not quite sure what an electrolytic polarized cap is doing there.
Is it direction switch?
The current / voltage there is AC and it is bad for a cap.
Back then there were no small size non electrolytic caps of this capacitance so it is probably an electrolytic.
I do not know if by chance it is non-polarized electrolytic.
They did the same in tweeter drive in 38-690, using an electrolytic cap in crossover AC out.
This said, replace it with the same capacitance/voltage film cap.
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