[radiorich]

Hello Everyone,
I have one of my Heavy-duty bench powersuplies made by Samlex it's 13.8 volt dc 20-25 amp supply.
What I would like to do is replace it's main filter electrolytic capacitors which it uses six 4700ufd capacitors to add up to 28,000ufd .
they used a no-named brand and I was wondering about getting some higher value capacitors to replace those six .
or should just stick with the original design ?


Here are a couple photos of this monster        


Sincerely Richard
P.S. the other thing I thought would be handy is volt and amp meter to add to it !
this unit really used seven 4700ufd capacitors

[DaleHCook]

I suggest sticking with the original values. Depending upon the design if you increase the cap values too much the increase in inrush current may damage components ahead of the caps.

[radiorich]

Hello Dale,
What I plan to do is to use a couple  of  14,000 ufd capacitors and put them in parallel and take that circuit board with the 6 4700ufd capacitors are mounted on them to the chassis .

Sincerely Richard