[Milsurplus] BC-654...

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John,

Low A+ from the PE-104 is almost always caused by the selenium rectifiers.  
I've found very few bad capacitors in either them, the BC-654 or the PE-103.  I 
went through half a dozen NOSB PE-104's last year without finding a single 
one with good seleniums.

In a message dated 3/4/2005 6:22:58 PM Central Standard Time, 
jmccarty at lucent.com writes: 
> A+ voltage from pe-104 still low, may yet be a
> bad cap in the '104, as it's a tough thing to work in. Someone suggested 
> that
> replacing the little bridge rectifier with silicon may also caused this 
> problem.
> Looks like it was built from the inside out

Robert Downs - Houston
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