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Old 06-08-2007, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by compucat
I only left it in because I did not have a replacement and I've never had a set that used these before. It was not a wax paper cap so I left it alone.
It is a wax paper cap encased in a plastic shroud. Guarenteed to be bad now.

As a quick test, use a few caps in series to get the cap rated at 0.015 uf, 1000V. The formula for ding series caps is C= 1/((1/c1)+(1/c2)+(1/c3)+etc), similar to parallel resistors. Best to use caps narly the same capacitence, so the voltage drop across them is close to even. The smaller cap will see higher voltage. A pair of 0.03 caps, or 3 0.047 caps would do it.
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