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Old 08-07-2015, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by old_coot88 View Post
check the value of the two 270K equalizing resistors. If one is off by much, it would throw excessive voltage onto one of the caps, since the caps are in series.
both of those resistors were bad... one did not read at all, and the other was at 750K! That accounts for the excessive voltage and the bad cap. Thanks for that good advise, I would have never known and just thought it was a faulty cap!
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