electrolytic capacitor questions

[zeno]

Originally Posted by technicolor

Well, it's not dead anymore, but it is on life support.

The maggie combo, (chassis unknown but closely resembles a 933) showed some signs of life after my first recap, so i'm feeling kind of smart but dangerous at the same time, lol

So here's my question, i know on non electrolytics it has been stated many times, it's ok to replace with a much higher rated voltage, but, is it ok to do that with electrolytics? I replaced a few 200mfd lytics in the radio chassis with much higher rated voltage, 160v instead of 50.

IS this ok?

Absolutely. Only other consideration is temperature. Only caps in
old sets I remember higher temp is the line cap in a doubler.
Newer sets you gotta watch it more. Cost & physical, size, tolerance,
& mounting also factors.

Higher V better
Higher Temp better
mfd 47 OK for 50, 4.7 OK for 4 etc
mfd can sometimes go a little higher

73 Zeno