What Caps?

[Grainger49]

I had to look up the KGB caps.  Paully has had some of those in his last two crossovers.  I bought a pair for my tweeter crossover but settled on a KK Teflon.

I'll grab a handful of caps to take to the build.  I want to see how they will pan out if I can talk him into rolling caps with jumpers.  He prefers to solder and listen. 

[Paully]

We can do some cap rolling.  I have the KBG's coming and am still going to order the obbligato.  I should send them to you so you can run them in.  Obbligato supposedly need a minimum of 200 hours and the KBG should probably get the same.  You had some sort of system for running caps in at some point, still do?  Then we can do the jumpers and see what we like.  How does that sound?

[Grainger49]

Be glad to.  I'm sending some pictures.

[Gerry E.]

A zip tied pair would fit under the hood... but if you PM the usual guys on ePay they have 10uF 200v's in their stashes; that's how I got my pair ($10 bucks or so a piece). They would work if you secured them to the base plate. No greater risk than securing them the way in the manual.

Boulos built my BeePre using the stock caps.  A few weeks later he was kind enough to replace the stock caps with Russian PIO 10uF.  He used the zip-tie method you mentioned and it worked fine (though it took some extra work).

Gerry

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[johnsonad]

Gerry, which Russian PIO is that?

[Gerry E.]

Gerry, which Russian PIO is that?

I purchased the caps from elecments13 on eBay.  He is located in Bulgaria.  I don't know if these are the exact same caps I purchased but they are very similar (ex. voltage may have been different):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-uF-300-V-STRONG-MATCHED-RUSSIAN-PAPER-IN-OIL-PIO-AUDIO-CAPACITORS-MBGO-1-/281306931976?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item417f332308

Gerry       

[johnsonad]

They are MBGO's. The KBG's are much larger. Alexander on ePay usually has them if you want the give them a try in the future.