Warm electrolytics?

[Randy Bassham]

I once had an 80/80/20 at 475 in a Magnavox T962 chassis vent right past my left ear. I had just turned the chassis over and was trying to find the reason for the circuit breaker tripping intermittantly when the whole bottom blew out of the can and the stuffins went past my left ear. This was around 1975 and the set would have been a little over 3 years old at the time. I'm in the middle of restoration of a Sansui 1000A and I've got a 20/20/20 at 500 heating up badly, I'm having trouble finding replacements with greater than 450 working volts, since the B+ on one of the sections runs up to 485 volts during warmup and seems to be running about 430 or so on that section it really needs the higher rating.

[Chad Hauris]

We have gotten new 20 mfd at 500 volt Sprague caps at our shop...just used some in a Leslie amp repair. I think we got them from New Sensor. I think they also have a JJ dual cap with 50 and 50 mfd. at 500 volts and we have used these successfully too.