fdt-5bx5 Violently Exploding Capacitor

[vol.2]

Originally Posted by zeno

That cap was a common fail especially in Sony & Zenith B&W sets.
Wrong one will explode sooner or later. In the olden days we just
used the OEM, NP caps were hard to come by.

Zeno

Okay, that makes me feel better about it then. I am going to order up a poly cap that can take a lot more abuse, something on the order of 8A, and see if it can budge that.