[R-390] Capacitor Replacement

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:43:36 -0400

Been watching this thread.  First, do not perform a wholesale replacement of 
all the capacitors in the radio.  The effort will not yield any inprovement.  
Beyond that,  there are some, especially in extremely low value components 
in the RF deck, that are clearly installed with lead dress considerations in 
mind.

On the www site, there is a compendium of the usual suspects when it 
comes to bad caps:

http://www.r390a.com/ProbCaps.html

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