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ceramic disc caps [message #25656]

Thu, 17 February 2005 22:41

styles
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Registered: May 2009

Esquire

i have a couple of bad ceramic caps on an old tube magnavox radio these are on the pc board can i replace thme with silver mica or a poly propylene caps or do they have to be ceramic...thanks

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Re: ceramic disc caps [message #25657 is a reply to message #25656]

Fri, 18 February 2005 02:03

Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001

Illuminati (33rd Degree)

I don't recall ever seeing those old ceramics go bad. They have small capacitance values and you can replace them with anything as long as the capacitance and voltage values are right.

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