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Old 01-07-2014, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Kamakiri View Post
Carl, do you remember the value of the dropping resistor you used on the seleniums? My 14 year old son decided that he'd like to try recapping a set with me, and those are going to have to be done.
Surprisingly I did not need to put in a dropping resistor.
The voltage levels were spot on.
I did though use two 1N4007's in series instead of one.
My thinking was that if one diode shorted out, the other would
take over protecting my electrolytics. Cheap insurance:-)

Carl
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