[NJARC] Philco Console

[Al Klase]

TrainBee@aol.com wrote:

> Hello Al,
>        Thanks for the good eye help.  Here is my quandry on the Philco 
> 41-295 where the 16 and 25 uf are in the circut, whomever last worked on 
> this added in a 16 and 20 uf and did not take the original cans 
> (electrolytics) out of the circut.  I'm going to take the old caps out 
> of the circut and see what happens.  With the way it was wired, it 
> should have shorted out when turned on.  I'm glad I didn't turn it on.
> 

A lot of old electrolytics dried out, like in the first ten 
years of life, and lost their capacitance without shorting. 
  Many old sets have caps just tacked in in parallel.  I 
always cut them dead, but leave the cans in place if they're 
above the chassis.  You might need to add terminal strips to 
have a place to connect everything.

Al


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