Newbie Capacitor FAQ and Primer.
This seemed appropriate for the number of times I get asked these type of questions.
Help, my broken whatzit doesn't make sound?
Figure out how to fix it first. Don't recap any unit until it works. If you want to do a "recapair" 90% of the time you're just going...
So I recently bought a Kenwood KR-5200 receiver, it works and sounds great, but after opening it I saw several bad caps which had the following written on it "4700J, WV 50, NOBLE".
I went ahead and took a look at service manual and the only caps rated at 50 WV were 4700uF so I went online to...
I have this Teac reel to reel machine. The capstan motor has a 6 pack Startup capacitor package. The one cap in it that starts up the capstan motor on power up has intermittent connection. Is there anywhere or anyone that sells these old parts? If not I may have to build discretely. I have the...