[R-390] R-390A IF deck caps in T501 or T502

Larry H larry41gm at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 17:53:23 EST 2019


I'm working on an R-390A IF deck that has intermittent gain.  I've swapped
all the tubes numerous times, inspected for bad solder joints (found one)
and wiggled all the components and wiring.   I fixed a very bad solder joint
 already in the plate resistor of the 6ak6 v504.  It helped, but did not
solve the problem.

The bug I'm working on now is a bad cap in the T501/T502 in the 2nd IF
V502.  It's heat sensitive - shows up as it warms up.   There are 2 caps on
each coil - I think they are 39 and 15 pf, but the 15 only has writing on
it (no color code) in a form that does not make any sense (115E and 1G03).
It's a small mica and from all the caps I know of, 115E = 1,100,000 pf or
1.1 mfd.  1.1 mfd does not make electronic sense and it is a small mica
cap.  The first '1' could be an 'I', as the printing is not real clear,
hence my suspicion it's a 15 pf.  I know it's bad as that coil will not
peak and I replaced the other cap.  I looked through the pearls and parts
list, but could not find the values.  Does anyone happen to know?

I'd really prefer to just replace the 4 caps and not the whole
transformer.

Regards, Larry


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