[QuadList] The Capacitor Chronicles

Tim Stoffel tim at lionlamb.us
Sat Nov 28 03:48:45 CST 2009


On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 14:54 -0500, Don Norwood wrote:
> Like Guy, I rarely have found the large computer grade electrolytics in the 
> power supplies to be bad.  One large caveat however, if the machine has been 
> operated without proper cooling, all bets are off.  Park experienced 
> numerous power supply problems, but we know that the air filters in his 
> machine were completely clogged when he got it.  I suspect that contributed 
> to his problems.
> 

BTW, the AVR-2 power supply was Charlie Anderson's last circuit design
for Ampex.

Tim Stoffel





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