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Cap replacement do i dont i?
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:06 am
by jinglis
one of my caps in the LTD octane amp is leaking but its one of the capacitors on the capacitor bank in the middle not one on the amps. is it worth replacing?
does anyone know where i can get them from?
value are:
35v
1500uf
part no.6126(m)
+105degreesC
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:13 am
by stipud
Yikes. Rail caps usually last much longer than those smaller input caps. Most of the time those big blue kahunas don't need to be swapped out in M/MS amps even.
However, it looks like that one was faulty or may have seen some physical damage in it's lifetime. If it's leaking, you definitely need to replace it. I'm not sure of any good parts places in the UK to buy the replacement however (you may want to PM marko if he has any ideas, I know he does lots of repairs).
Worst case scenario I think you can just remove it, as they should simply be run in parallel. That would reduce the capacitance of your rails by only a slight amount, but the amp should still work properly.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:23 am
by HoseHead
Definitely been boinked by something sharp to help create this early failure. The remaining caps look solid.
The leak looks even worse on the board end of the cap.
I would remove and replace ASAP and not drive the amp hard until that time.
Far too rare of an amp, (of which you didn't show a whole pic!!) to take any chances of further damage.
HH
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:54 am
by jinglis
follow this thread for lots of pics of my amp but it looks like something has dented the top of it
but here are lots of pics of amps bits
http://phoenixphorum.com/broken-ltd-oct ... t6319.html
and i'll pm marko in a bit but i think hes still crying because he didnt win the 2 ms1000's on uk ebay