Capacitor Replacement Advice

[Structo]

@ sepulkrisiun

Please start your own thread if you need help.

[armillary]

I was going to say that, but the thread is "Capacitor Replacement Advice", and this is a new member who speaks Portuguese and probably Spanish and is learning English. That's two more languages than most of us can speak, and three for some. Obrigado.

[Structo]

Obrigado

[hossymandias]

Here's another question. When ordering replacement capacitors, I tried to replace the big paper capacitors with orange drops, but instead of 1mfd orange drops, I used these:

Polyfilm Caps

They are the same voltage rating, they just look so weird in there...

What do you guys think, do I need to spring for some nicer ones?

[Ken Moon]

Is there a difference I'm unaware of between radial/axial besides the physical placement of leads?

No, but you can find radial much cheaper, in general, because they're used far more often for PCB mounting. I've been finding creative ways to use radial caps in my turret board layouts.

It's also hard to find electrolytic caps with high temperature and reliability ratings like these Nichicon PW's in the axial configuration.

Here's one way I've laid them out on a turret-board design:

[img761]http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t346 ... 2board.jpg[/img]