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Cerwin Vega VH-36 crossover rebuild

guitar_freak

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Bought a pair of Cerwin Vega VH-36 speakers today and decided to rebuild the crossover. In the bottom corner, where you plug in your speaker there is also two pots. I’m assuming these are the mid and tweeter adjustments.
Upon taking the back off the only electronic pieces I can find are on the back of this plate and there are only two caps.

the info I can make out of these caps are
Temple
70F = 100%
200VDC

What is this big yellow thing and where is a good source to get these caps?
 

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Also these speakers have a couple places the carpet has ripped. One of these places it seems a cat went at it. Where could I find matching carpet to patch fill/decaf pet. It’s the same fabric at the PD3s.
 

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The big yellow thing is the inductor coil for the woofer.
those caps are 7UF , 7MFD would be the same thing.
those Temple caps are junk.
 
You can find inexpensive replacements at Parts Express. The Dayton Audio metallized polyprop 5% tolerance caps would be fine here. Inductor doesn't need to be replaced. If the big cast resistor is in spec it's also OK to leave alone. Not sure what the smaller one is in between the big one and the yellow 7 uf caps, if that's a resistor check it with a meter too.

https://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-dmpc-68-68uf-250v-polypropylene-capacitor--027-424

Last two pics show a yellow rectangular block at the bottom left, what is that? Another cap?
 
You can find inexpensive replacements at Parts Express. The Dayton Audio metallized polyprop 5% tolerance caps would be fine here. Inductor doesn't need to be replaced. If the big cast resistor is in spec it's also OK to leave alone. Not sure what the smaller one is in between the big one and the yellow 7 uf caps, if that's a resistor check it with a meter too.

https://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-dmpc-68-68uf-250v-polypropylene-capacitor--027-424

Last two pics show a yellow rectangular block at the bottom left, what is that? Another cap?

Good question.
 
Could be a stacked-film capacitor, or a resistor. I'm going with capacitor. Should have the value stamped on the side.
 
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