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FStephenMasek · 17th Jul 2019, 10:50 pm

Slang and acronyms may help communication amongst some people, but hinder it with others. I started my working life as a computer consultant, and have been an environmental consultant for the past 29 years, so have always had to take care when communicating with people who are not "insiders."

Why even bother testing any old paper and foil capacitors?

So many old resistors are far off of the correct value, so I often also replace all of them. Many are connected to the same locations which are de-soldered to replace the capacitors, so replacement adds very little additional effort and time.

17th Jul 2019, 10:50 pm	#44
FStephenMasek Pentode Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Mission Viejo, California, USA Posts: 144	Re: 'THAT' Capacitor. What is it? Slang and acronyms may help communication amongst some people, but hinder it with others. I started my working life as a computer consultant, and have been an environmental consultant for the past 29 years, so have always had to take care when communicating with people who are not "insiders." Why even bother testing any old paper and foil capacitors? So many old resistors are far off of the correct value, so I often also replace all of them. Many are connected to the same locations which are de-soldered to replace the capacitors, so replacement adds very little additional effort and time.