Heads up - 19's for sale

[SOOTSHE]

AB and John, I noticed that Parts E. doesn't have exact values for all of the capacitors in the Solen brand. Do you mind stating again exact values you have used? Thanks.
I have tried some other caps that I didn't quite care for but now would like to try the Solens. So far the biggest improvement was connecting the ground lugs together. Now I think it would be a good experiment to try the Solens. I need some for another project as well.
It seems that many of the original Altec caps have degraded. Has anybody actually measured a bad original Altec cap?

Rontec,
You need 6, 8, 16 & 21 capacitors......1 of each total value.
I used 2 x 3 for the 6's, 4.7 & 3.3 for the 8's, 16 for the 16's & a 10 & an 11 for the 21.
These were all available from PE. I used 400V Solens.

This will make the biggest difference you can make to your 19's....way above all the other usual mods.

Now to get the new resistors...& I wish I had done this before as they are now buried underneath the new caps. Ah well....the things we do for old Altecs!!!

[rontec]

Thanks everyone for the info. I'll post later what I find out with the Solens.

Now to get the new resistors...& I wish I had done this before as they are now buried underneath the new caps. Ah well....the things we do for old Altecs!!!

Exactly....Maybe I should order resistors now too!

[Altec Best]

Exactly....Maybe I should order resistors now too!

Yes get them now they are like a couple dollars a piece.The resistors go in first,actually do the ground lug bypass first then the resistors and then the caps.The caps are a lot larger than the originals and will have a hard time getting them in as John is finding out.You really only need 250v but I used 400v as well, the originals are only 100v.

Can't wait to see another satisfied customer

[magnarc]

Rontec,
You need 6, 8, 16 & 21 capacitors......1 of each total value.
I used 2 x 3 for the 6's, 4.7 & 3.3 for the 8's, 16 for the 16's & a 10 & an 11 for the 21.
These were all available from PE. I used 400V Solens.

This will make the biggest difference you can make to your 19's....way above all the other usual mods.

Now to get the new resistors...& I wish I had done this before as they are now buried underneath the new caps. Ah well....the things we do for old Altecs!!!

Just one more question then, how are they wired into the circuit when you use two to create a specific value?

[SOOTSHE]

Just one more question then, how are they wired into the circuit when you use two to create a specific value?

Not sure whether you call this series or parallel, but you just solder one to the original connections & then just solder the other one to the same connections. That is, solder both the 2 smaller values to the same original connections to get the original larger value.....hope that's clear.

[magnarc]

Yep that's clear, I sorta figured that would be the way.

I'd call that parallel....

Thanks!