What do you use for high voltage paper caps?

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by Tom Albrecht

Surely you didn't mean that quite the way it came out? If you really want paper caps, you have to pay $$$ and get them from the "high end" audio crowd.

Thanks for pointing that out... I meant "non-ceramic". I casually use "paper" for all tubular caps; whether mylar or actual wax paper, etc. I use Orange Drops when available or mylars, or whatever I can get my hands on of good quality and fair price.

Charles

[Tom Albrecht]

For AM radios, line filters can have a big effect. Doubts about their usefulness in TVs with modern signal sources seem pretty reasonable.

[Penthode]

I am also an AM radio enthusiast and would hesitate moving too close to John if he clips out the line bypass caps.

On a more serious note, I do recall that the capacitors will reduce substantially the harmonics of the horizontal sweep being radiated by the house wiring. I recall once adding the capacitors when they were absent to do just this.