[Boatanchors] Parts, where to find

Richard Knoppow 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Sun Jan 28 23:15:24 EST 2024


    Have you tried Hayseed Hamfest? Tom probably has exact replacements. 
His are new caps, not restuffed old ones. May be more expensive but, if 
you can't find suitable ones, that really doesn't count.

On 10/16/2023 12:22 PM, Lawrence Godek wrote:
> I need a couple of electrolytic caps for my ranger.  trying to find them 
> on Digikey or Mouser is confusing as all get out so i'm not having much 
> luck.  Those showing up are short round things it appears.  The bad part 
> is that i need a 10 uf at 700 V and i'm willing to bet that i won't be 
> finding one of them.  That's the main power supply filter cap.  So i'll 
> have to do a workaround and put two or 3 of the lower voltage units in 
> series that will come out around 10 uf.  The rest shouldn't be hard to 
> find, 15 uf @ 150V, 10 uf @ 50V, 30 ufd @ 450V.
> 
> So who's or where is the best place to shop?  Where its easy to find 
> what one wants.  Some of these sites are really confusing. the older i 
> get the harder it gets.
> 
> Larry W0OGH
> 
> 
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Richard Knoppow
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