Not sure if there's a better place to ask this, so I'm tacking this onto here.
I'm trying to figure out what parts I need for the radio section of my console and I ran into a bizarre issue. If anyone else out there has a similar unit, I'd love to hear from you.
To make a long story short, there's an electrolytic capacitor listed on my radio's schematic/part list that just is not there on my radio.
I'll attach a picture of the schematic here. C33 is the problem child. There should be a 5 uF 12V capacitor connecting pin 4 of the 3rd AM IF transformer (T7) to pin 6 through a 15 K resistor and a diode.
I'm 99.9% certain that I'm looking at the right part of the board and schematic. However, It's just not there. I'll try attaching a couple pics to show what I'm looking at. It's almost impossible to get a good photo of this spot right here, so I'll add some text to help everyone see.
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The original owner was apparently still using this set as recently as 2018, so presumably this all works. That being said, I believe this is mostly original.
Prior to purchasing this set, I only ever powered the radio up to static. I think it's got a few non-electrolytic capacitors that need replacing before I can really feel comfortable powering it on again and testing it further. If the radio works fine without it though, I'm willing to just let sleeping dogs lie. I suppose something like this isn't impossible. Just couldn't believe my luck haha.
Gonna tack one more question here too while I'm at it: "100 + 100 uF" capacitors -- are those in series or parallel?
The parts list calls it "2 x 100 uF", the part itself reads "100 + 100 uF", and the schematic kinda makes it appear to be in parallel. In theory though, replacing it with a 200 uF capacitor should work fine regardless of the configuration (200 uF required if in parallel, 50 uF if in series, I believe). Just curious more than anything.
Thanks in advance!