[Amps] Results from new PSUD... resistor b4 the B+ filter caps !

Alek Petkovic vk6apk at bigpond.com
Thu Feb 11 14:31:18 PST 2010


At 06:20 AM 12/02/2010, Gary Schafer wrote:

>You guys must live a different life than Carl and me.
>I think that I have seen more shorted caps than open ones. Most old radios
>have shorted filter caps or will short soon after powering them up.
>Most amplifiers that I have seen that had old caps in them will short and
>pop the breaker. One sure way to kill them is to have a rectifier leg short
>out. The ac will short the caps.
>
>73
>Gary K4FMX


Are you talking about exploding capacitors? We've all seen them.

I have never thought of them being shorted . . . . just f***ed. Ha ha.

73, Alek
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