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Originally Posted by AUdubon5425
Hello everyone,
Someone did work to the horizontal AFC network, which is one of those all-in-one pc chips that look like a wide orange-drop cap with 5 leads (forgive me - I don't know the proper name for these.) They must have used a pretty hot iron, as heat blackened the board and cooked the insulation on a couple of wires. My question is: is there a good source for these chips, or are they made of unobtanium? Also, was there a reason other than convenience that the resistors and caps were integrated into the single chip?
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They are called "Couplates" - Centralab and Sprague made replacement units. As John said, most folks replace them with the discrete components now that they are unobtainable.
Cheers,
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Last edited by Findm-Keepm; 02-05-2015 at 10:04 AM.
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