I have just bought a Carvin Legacy amp. I knew it had some problems, but it was ridiculously cheap so I thought why not try to get it back to life.
It appears to have bad power filter caps according to the hum frequency and everything else checked and re-tubed and biased.
My experience with filter caps are small and the only thing I know is that it's important to discharge them first. I need a bit help here please.
These two caps are 82uf 500V each. I can't find caps with this value anywhere so the option I have is F&T caps which someone recommended me. I believe I can get these with 100uf 500V each and with almost the same dimensions.
Is it ok to use a larger uf value?
Do I need to change other caps or resistors because of the higher uf value on the caps or is it maybe a good idea to change these anyway?
I was thinking about the two smaller ones next to the bigger caps and the yellow one? What do they do?
Here are som pictures:
https://pasteboard.co/J0qWqjA.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qWI5j.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qWYJv.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qX50d.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qXbJj.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qXiuY.jpg
It appears to have bad power filter caps according to the hum frequency and everything else checked and re-tubed and biased.
My experience with filter caps are small and the only thing I know is that it's important to discharge them first. I need a bit help here please.
These two caps are 82uf 500V each. I can't find caps with this value anywhere so the option I have is F&T caps which someone recommended me. I believe I can get these with 100uf 500V each and with almost the same dimensions.
Is it ok to use a larger uf value?
Do I need to change other caps or resistors because of the higher uf value on the caps or is it maybe a good idea to change these anyway?
I was thinking about the two smaller ones next to the bigger caps and the yellow one? What do they do?
Here are som pictures:
https://pasteboard.co/J0qWqjA.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qWI5j.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qWYJv.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qX50d.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qXbJj.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/J0qXiuY.jpg
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