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Originally Posted by Phil Nelson
I am going to save your little story for the next time someone crows about how their radios & TVs run perfectly with original electrolytics. May be true . . . for a while.
Phil Nelson
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I've had to replace can electrolytics lately, one in a late 40's Zenith radio, another set in a 1950 Admiral B&W TV, and in a stereo amplifier, a Dynaco SCA35. Must be time for the chickens to roost. Looks like they lasted about 20 years longer than cardboard tube electrolytics.
I've done the "pair of caps in series" to replace 450V caps. A pair of 250V caps, same capacitance, with 1 watt 1 megohm resistors across each cap, to be sure the voltage divides evenly across the pair. Mounted them on terminal strips under chassis, leaving the old caps unconnected but still present.