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Philco 38-690 electrolytic capacitors--UPDATE
retiredinprescott
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02-20-2014, 10:57 PM
Warren,
The problem is that most of the electrolytics are replacements. The large yellow electrolytics in the photo are 16uF, 600v caps. I don't believe 600V caps are needed but the schematic and parts list do NOT show the voltage of the original caps, only the value. I'm hoping to find out if standard 450V electrolytics would suffice or do any of them need to be higher voltage. This is a high tube count set with two separate power transformers and two 5X4G rectifier tubes (one on each power transformer).
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Mark
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