In Reply to: No, those suckers get really hot posted by Chip647 on April 18, 2016 at 14:19:34:
Thing is, if that amplifier is working at the shown operating point, the resistor should only be dissipating 1.5W. (41Vx0.036A), which shouldn't kill the capacitor right away even mounted like that.
Definitely something weird is going on here, I wonder if the B+ is way high
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