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Re: Reforming caps

I actually lifted one of the cap leads yesterday to measure the current through it.. came out to about 40 uA. I didn't think that was too bad. One cap that does kind of bother me are the two used for the voltage doubler - and that's primarily because they seem to run so close to their max voltage. Each of the two caps are rated for 250v, but on power up, before the output tubes start to draw current, the B+ hit about 495v. I might replace those two with 350v units.


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