[sdiy] Old Japanese Capacitors?

[Bob Weigel]

In my workings...I'm thinking the Italians might have had the best 
sources overall on electrolytics. Similar designs to some I've seen in 
old lab gear made in Germany often. The two Aelita I fixed weren't so 
hot in terms of the big ones at least. But the big ones from Western 
Europe seem ok still usually. Japanese ones...see a lot of good ones 
still but a bad one here and there.  But I haven't worked on much old 
old Japanese stuff.  Pre 1977 I'm in the dark about.  I finally got 
started pulling the boards out of my CS-60.  We'll see what the problems 
are there.  One of the voice cards had gone down..then fuse blew as 
current went over the limit just a little bit.  Anybody wanna venture a 
guess that is just might be a cap?  It could be a chip too...hope not. 
Man there is a lot of $$ worth of chips in those things for what they've 
often gone for.  Anyway  I'll probably just have to pull one pair of 
supply leads at a time until I find which board is sucking the current. -Bob

J. Larry Hendry wrote:

>In my trash can after being removed from 80s vintage synth that didn't work.
>:-)  <snicker>
>Larry
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