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1200 and 2000 volt caps in the filter condenser block?
Ron Ramirez
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06-15-2008, 05:11 PM
Hi

Yes.

The highest voltage any of those caps are going to see is around 250-275 volts on (20)C, the 6A7 plate bypass.

1200 to 2000 volts is, quite frankly, overkill for those caps. It made sense when the sets were being made...Philco was winding its own paper caps back then and striving for good quality without going too far overboard. But even with the over-rated caps Philco was making, they were still...paper caps, and had a fairly short lifespan. With today's better film caps, there is no reason to use anything rated higher than 630 WVDC.
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