I have an Atwater Kent Model 310 with a model 10 chassis, and it has 3 wet electrolytic capacitors that had leaked.
I cut the wires to one of them (c20) and replaced it with a more modern cap. The other two caps, c19 and c21, have only one wire coming off them. My question is, did they intentionally solder the other lead to the caps can for use as ground ? I'm looking at the bottom of the can and cannot easily tell if this is true.
I just want to make sure before I wire replacement caps to ground.
Wayne Parham Messages: 18787 Registered: January 2001
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I'm sure you've guessed it right. Check to see if they're power supply caps, which they most certainly must be. In that case, they are just ripple filters and a large value across the line (to ground) makes sense.
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