Ditto on seeing this same failure on RCA TAC200 mobiles. I was surprised to
find that it did not seem to make any difference in the way the transmitter
worked. I never bothered to replace the cap and the RCA radio continued to
work just fine, no spurious that I could find.
73 - Jim W5ZIT
sgreact47 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL
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> I've had a 6.8 µF 35 V capacitor burn up on the GE VHF HB MVP.
I have also seen this on RCA TAC200 mobiles, and TPL, Vocom, ect
power amps.
Could be a resonat condition in the tantalum, maybe a low esr
electrolitic may be better.
Electrolitics are used in most PA stages, ie Spectra, Mitrek,
MSR2000, R1225, Maxtrac, Maratrac. I use low esr electrolitics for
replacement.
Maybe look at it with a scope and X10 probe for oscillation.
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