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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Paramount => Topic started by: glynnw on October 20, 2010, 08:00:17 AM

Title: Capacitor orientation
Post by: glynnw on October 20, 2010, 08:00:17 AM

This weekend my new V-cap capacitors will have received 200 hours of burn-in and be ready for installation as coupling caps.  According to V-cap:

Title: Reading From Auricap...
Post by: Grainger49 on October 20, 2010, 08:49:44 AM

"Lowest impedance path to ground," reads to me (from Audience) as the green lead for an interstage coupling cap should be attached to driver stage plate, or as a bypass for a positive power supply connected to the negative lead, or as a bypass for a negative power supply connected to the positive lead, or for an output/Parafeed cap connected to the output tube plate.

Title: Re: Capacitor orientation
Post by: Paul Joppa on October 20, 2010, 12:01:23 PM

Green lead to terminal 9. That terminal goes back to the driver (B socket); terminal 7 goes (through the 220 ohm grid stopper) to the 300B grid at A3.

Title: Re: Capacitor orientation
Post by: glynnw on October 20, 2010, 12:53:24 PM

Thanks, Paul, for putting it in terms I can understand.