gofar99 Messages: 1969 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
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Hi, I tend to agree...but in all the time I have been using gear (mostly Marantz) or designing my own I have never had a cap go so far out of wack that I needed to replace it. I suspect it partly comes from having high quality gear and using only similar stuff in my designs. I am sure that budget caps are more likely to fail. A problem I have run into in some folks diy builds using tubes is to use 85C rated electrolytics. Only 105C ones ought to be used and they should be placed away from. heat sources. I get a chuckle out of a lot of vintage gear with "can" caps placed right next to power tubes. A guaranteed way to cause problems.
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