RE: Removing the input coupling caps??

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Posted by DAK (A) on August 24, 2014 at 15:22:31

In Reply to: Removing the input coupling caps?? posted by Tweaker456 on August 19, 2014 at 13:22:00:

Hey tweak, I always remove them from my rebuilt amps but there is 1 situation where if I had some installed in one of my amps it would have saved it from a catastrophic event. The amp was a Hybrid ss with tube front end powerful 200 w/channel. My son used it as a music amp for jamming. When he plugged in his ancillary equipment which was outputting significant DCV the overvoltage just fried all the output transistors on the amp. If there was a blocking cap on the input that would not have happened. Just be careful who you lend your amps to. cheers, Dak

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Topic - Removing the input coupling caps?? - Tweaker456 13:22:00 08/19/14 (15)

RE: Removing the input coupling caps?? - DAK 15:22:31 08/24/14 (0)

RE: Removing the input coupling caps?? - xaudiomanx 22:05:34 08/20/14 (1)

SPICE - Triode_Kingdom 08:29:39 08/21/14 (0)

RE: Removing the input coupling caps?? - Hornlover 08:16:28 08/20/14 (0)

RE: Removing the input coupling caps?? - Chip647 05:06:39 08/20/14 (6)

Rolloff freq. - Tweaker456 13:43:18 08/20/14 (0)

High pass filter aspect... - Tweaker456 13:40:39 08/20/14 (2)

My correction to this (my) comment... - Tweaker456 13:05:09 08/25/14 (0)

You can't talk about the 0.1uF cap in isolation,... - Lew 17:45:27 08/20/14 (0)

Input Cap Functions - Triode_Kingdom 08:37:43 08/20/14 (1)

RE: Input Cap Functions - Chip647 12:29:39 08/20/14 (0)

RE: Removing the input coupling caps?? - Paul Joppa 13:39:08 08/19/14 (3)

I wasn't looking for a critique... - Tweaker456 13:37:22 08/20/14 (2)

RE: I wasn't looking for a critique... - Caucasian Blackplate 12:17:07 08/21/14 (0)

But that's what you asked for... - Triode_Kingdom 17:00:27 08/20/14 (0)

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RE: Removing the input coupling caps?? - DAK 15:22:31 08/24/14 (0)

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