09-11-2026, 10:06 PM
Hello Arran,
I bought some new ceramic capacitors from Mouser, along with small pre-made circuit boards that let me replace PC mount capacitors with surface-mount ones. Small value capacitors are getting harder to find as companies stop making them. For example, the amplifier I’m repairing had a couple of 0.22 uF electrolytic capacitors on the phono preamp that had basically turned into 20-ohm resistors.
Sincerely Richard
I bought some new ceramic capacitors from Mouser, along with small pre-made circuit boards that let me replace PC mount capacitors with surface-mount ones. Small value capacitors are getting harder to find as companies stop making them. For example, the amplifier I’m repairing had a couple of 0.22 uF electrolytic capacitors on the phono preamp that had basically turned into 20-ohm resistors.
Sincerely Richard
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