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Old 22nd Dec 2016, 6:40 pm   #23
indigo.girl
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Default Re: My first valve radio project - Philips 462A

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Originally Posted by Hetrodyne View Post
Might be best if you stopped any further work until you have read the trader sheet and become more familiar with the chassis and of basic radio operation, better knowledge would have told you that a 330pF capacitor was in the wrong place and the wrong value to be the output valve grid coupler. Not so bad that the three Dubiliers have been removed, these can be replaced with new capacitors. But the radio needs assessing first before just replacing components.
You are quite right. To be honest, the suggestion of the capacitors didn't seem to make much sense to me as I read the manufacturers service sheet but I didn't query it because I presumed it must be because I simply didn't understand it yet...
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