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AK model 310 capacitor question [message #25847] Wed, 07 June 2006 14:17 Go to next message
tjclifford is currently offline  tjclifford
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Registered: May 2009
Esquire
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.

Thanks......

Re: AK model 310 capacitor question [message #25848 is a reply to message #25847] Wed, 07 June 2006 14:34 Go to previous message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)

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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