[Hallicrafters] Re: Paper Capacitor Observation

[John Brooks]

Wayne,

I would be interested in hearing more specifics about
brands/types of capacitors you found bad.  Wax
covered, molded, bumblebee, tiny chief, black beauty
or ???  It is always interesting to have details.

John


> I have, over the past two months, recapped a SX-71
> and an HQ.129X. I saved every one of the paper
> capacitors.
>  
> Today, I took about an hour and checked each of
> these capacitors on my Sencore Capacitor Analyzer.
> This high quality analyzer measures four different
> capacitor functions. In every one of the paper
> capacitors I found that they were leaking, far in
> excess of the acceptable minimum. The ESR was bad in
> 98 percent. There was not a single capacitor, out of
> about 24+ caps, that tested as acceptable. In other
> words, every single paper cap tested as bad.  I'm
> sure that is not a surprise to many of you.
>  
> But, just thought I'd share this observation.
>  
> Wayne
> 



		
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