[sdiy] Octave Cat Questions

[James Patchell]

The semiconductors should be fine...in theory, the tantalum caps should be 
as well.  Now, in the past, I have had problems with low quality polyester 
film capacitors...they seem to open up, sort of a judgement call...

At 12:33 AM 7/5/2004 -0500, carlile at ece.utexas.edu wrote:
>I'm working on repairing an original Octave Cat.  I'm going to replace the
>electrolytic caps in the power supply considering these are quite old by 
>now.
>Since I'll be working on it, I'm wondering if there is anything else in the
>power supply I might as well replace/upgrade.  The other components are two
>a7815uc voltage regulators, two .22uF film caps, two .2uF 25v tantalum caps,
>and a VM18 rectifier.  Should any of these components be replaced or are they
>generally good throughout the years?
>
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         -Jim
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