[Hallicrafters] Safety Capacitors

[GBrown]

A few bucks is not a waste of time when replacing these capacitors or even
adding them to your existing circuit. For less than $5.00 and 30 minutes,
you have helped increase the life of the radio, or I should say, certain
parts in the radio. After awhile, line spikes do take there toll and power
transformers are not forgiving after being hit a few times. I have even
experienced lighting on the ac line and just blew away one of the line
bypass caps. Fused was blown but only after the lighting had gone thru it,
transformer and other related parts, still ok.
I put these caps on just about every piece of radio gear I have.
Regards,
Gary...WZ1M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren" <ww1hh at cvok.net>
To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Safety Capacitors


> Good Afternoon.  First I want to thank all that replied to my message, I
> received different replies from all, so I went to a supplier of Safety
Caps
> and asked the same question. The reply was about any will do, but the most
> common are .01 for Y and .05 for X. He all so said that they will do
little
> for safety if installed where their was none in the beginning but should
> reduce noise from the line. (some people report no change). I am going to
do
> some more research, They may be a waste of time and money.
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