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items: ROTFLMAO!
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items: Sure you have enough?
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ROTFLMAO!
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description: I bought 4 lots of, and I quote,: " (5) Aerovox 19.5uF Motor run capacitors. $4.50 each." I think that's too cheap for 5 pieces so I figure its an E-Bayism and buy it now for a quantity of 4. $30 with shipping. Then I wait to see if I get 4 pieces or twenty. They just came. 20, Brand new oil caps! A buck fifty each! Hey, they all have a .5 megohm resistor across the terminals. Never seen that before. Leave it? Or is it for storage?
creator: Bill Epstein
date: 2007-10-13T18:39:40-00:00

Re: ROTFLMAO!
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description: Sweet! Such a deal. The shunt resistors are to discharge the capacitors so they don't maintain a dangerously high voltage. Leave 'em in place if they'll be in high voltage circuits. It is such a high resistance, it won't make the capacitors act leaky. If the caps are used in low voltage circuits, it doesn't matter as much.
creator: Wayne Parham
date: 2007-10-13T23:13:08-00:00

Re: You want a pair? Or 2?
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description: What the heck can I do with 20 except build a single-ended air conditioner?:) Perfect for the 1.6k crossover and I'm listening to them now. Greater clarity than the Eminence generic caps they replaced but obviously still breaking in. I'm hearing changes.
creator: Bill Epstein
date: 2007-10-13T23:22:36-00:00

Sure you have enough?
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description: If you have extras, send me a few.
creator: Wayne Parham
date: 2007-10-14T03:10:26-00:00

Re: ROTFLMAO!
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description: Bill, I got some 22uF Obligato caps from DIY Hifi that you recommended for parafeed caps to use in a xover I'm working on- do you think the Aerovox's are better than those? Have you a/b'd them? how're the DE250's doing? Keepers or are you continuing the quest? Matts
creator: Matts_
date: 2007-10-20T22:27:25-00:00

Re: ROTFLMAO!
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description: I'm waiting on the mail gal to bring me a pair of those 22uF Obbligatos so we'll find out soon. As for the DE-250s, apart from being forever spoiled by the 1812s 2" 2446 and Speakermans GP 399s, I think they're the best 1" I've heard. Keepers.
creator: Bill Epstein
date: 2007-10-21T07:34:51-00:00

Re: Sure you have enough?
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description: A six-pack is on the way
creator: Bill Epstein
date: 2007-10-28T21:58:54-00:00

Thanks!
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description: Capacitors arrived today. Thanks, Bill! You see those numbers written on top? Did you measure them and write the microfarad value on top? Looks like somebody did.
creator: Wayne Parham
date: 2007-10-31T03:06:26-00:00

Re: Thanks!
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description: You don't think I'd send you anything but matched pairs, do you?
creator: Bill Epstein
date: 2007-10-31T12:42:59-00:00

Re: Thanks!
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description: Thanks, Bill, very nice! What can I send you in return?
creator: Wayne Parham
date: 2007-10-31T13:27:01-00:00

Re: Thanks!
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description: You already have, many times over.
creator: Bill Epstein
date: 2007-10-31T19:04:19-00:00