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An old capacitor on trial

Started by saturated, October 17, 2026, 09:16:29 PM

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saturated

I removed this capacitor from the PS of a Craig 4201 23 channel base station

For some reason it fell under my suspicion and was removed

This was a while back and it's probably innocent

Time to exonerate?

Not having (or the room for) a sencore or tel-ohm mike or Heathkit etc I figured I could do a simple test to check for leakage

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So far it's holding up at 5V  xP

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I'll increase the voltage ⚡ in intervals and see what happens

Or doesn't happen  xP
Here in 1994
Things are different than before