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Offline spirantho

Re: Replacing Caps in a 600
« on: January 06, 2009, 11:20:07 AM »
Something to remember:

Electrolytic caps have a specified life of only about 20 years. Some will last longer, some a lot shorter.... but they will all fail eventually. That's why people replace them with tantalum bead caps, which have a much longer life. For CBM, this would have been prohibitively expensive, as tantalum beads are a lot more costly, but for us it's only the matter of a few quid/dollars/beads.

If you replace electrolytics with electrolytics, you'll have to do the same repair later on, no matter what brand you use.

This is worth bearing in mind for all appliances... I recently fixed my turntable (a Linn Axis) by switching out four large electrolytics..... so if something stops working, they're often the prime suspects!
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