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diyAudio Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Jeffersonville, Indiana USA
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Caps can be surplus because the military contract was cancelled, or the model didn't sell or something. Electrolytic caps as surplus are usually outdated, half way or all the way to being dried up, and definitely not worth buying unless manufactured less than 5 years ago. 500 hour electrolytic caps or unrated hours electrolytic caps are not worth buying even if new, in my opinion, life is too short. Many of my R**** S***** grab bag caps from the 1960's are mismarked, according to my audio quasi-sine oscillator experiment. Cap marking is pretty hit and miss these days anyway, if you don't have a maufacturers datasheet the meaning of the letters "m" and "n" vary a lot between continents, cultures, and decade of manufacture. At least your "Elna" are allegedly labeled. I like buying from newark.com or farnell.com (outside US), the shipping is $5, the delivery is two days, and there is a sticker on the bag telling you what you bought in real uf, nf, or pf, however stupidly the part itself is marked. Expected life, design temperature, and voltage are clearly labeled on the bag sticker. Some of the J******** caps I just bought were stupidly marked, in my opinion. Quality caps, though, sound good in the PAS2. I tend to keep things for decades, as you can tell, I've just used metal film military surplus resistors from grab bags I put away 35 years ago in the PAS2 and the H182 rebuilds.
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Last edited by indianajo; 11th August 2010 at 02:48 PM.
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11th August 2010, 02:41 PM
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