[Hallicrafters] Darn Capacitors
Carl Nord
chnord at comcast.net
Tue Oct 16 19:45:16 EDT 2007
I do one at a time and turn it back on with a switch on the variac. Keeps errors to a minimum and lets me hear the improvements
Good luck!
73
Carl / WA1KPD
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Waldo Magnuson <magnuson at mac.com>
> My usual practice in replacing capacitors is to replace 2 or 3 and
> sometimes 4 and then see if the receiver still operates. I make
> sketches of the capacitors I am replacing and am very careful.
> Well this time I replaced 5 capacitors (in my SX-28A) and now the
> volume is way-way down. The audio section appears okay (input via the
> phono input).
> I'm checking resistor values, voltages, connections, etc. where I
> replaced the capacitors (in the V6 and V7 area), but have not found the
> problem.
> I may be back for help - wish me luck.
> 73, Skip W7WGM
>
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