JohnA Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 I still have the Technics SA-200 receiver I bought in college, and it still works, but with a little static in the knobs. I intend to re-cap it. It's 8 ohm rating is 25 wpc and its 4 ohm rating is 30 wpc. Typical of these amps, the heat sinks are small as are the P.S. caps. Recovery from clipping is audibly slow. The original caps are 35V, 6800 uF. If I have the power supply cap size increased, what will I do to the amp? There is plenty of room to add more Al plate for heat sink and looks like room for a pair of 25 x 80mm+ caps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 2 minutes ago, wdecho said: Deoxit for the pots and no problem with increasing capacitance or voltage rating of caps. Headroom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 I am currently refurb'ing some Crown D75 amps.The stock caps were 10,000uF. I increased them to the biggest I could find that would still fit 22,000uF. The at rest(no signal voltage) has increased from + and -30 volts to about 36 and at full load just before clip I am still getting about 30. I did not measure what the original caps dipped to at full load. Also have not or did not check the ripple yet. But @John Warren did some of this with D45s and documented it quite well. See: Well I can't get to his forum right now, don't know why But perhaps you have seen some of his posts here. I think this extra capacitance will give a reserve of power for low freq transients and I'm sure the added voltage probably makes the outputs run a little hotter. But with our efficient Klipsch speakers I will never run these things up high anyway. In short i don't think you can hurt your receiver by upping the capacitance. Of course make sure they're still rated to work at the correct voltage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Just now, wdecho said: Not sure exactly what you mean. Are you talking about the physical size of the cap? Knowing if a larger value cap will fit should be a no brainer for anyone working on electronic equipment. Headroom = the minimum you need + extra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 I was hoping/thinking I could get more headroom, of sorts. I want to try to reduce the recovery time from clipping and maybe increase the millisecond output into 4 ohms. These old low end receivers were built to pass the ratings test, but no more. It sounds fine, until it clips a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moray james Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 need to keep inrush current in mind at turn on if you are going to add a lot of filtering to the supply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Keep an eye out for the dissipation factor (ESR) on the larger value caps. You can actually hit a point where the larger value capacitor is worse. To put it another way, if you're increasing the capacitance, then make sure the physical size is increasing too. These are horrible rules of thumb because this should be calculated, but that's beyond the scope of the forum. Most times it's probably better, but not always... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted January 13, 2018 Author Share Posted January 13, 2018 2 hours ago, DrWho said: Keep an eye out for the dissipation factor (ESR) on the larger value caps. You can actually hit a point where the larger value capacitor is worse. To put it another way, if you're increasing the capacitance, then make sure the physical size is increasing too. These are horrible rules of thumb because this should be calculated, but that's beyond the scope of the forum. Most times it's probably better, but not always... The story of all engineering. My concern would be the in-rush current damaging a diode or causing a destructive thump. I quickly found a 10k uF cap on Mouser that was 3mm larger in diameter and 10 to 15mm taller. I have plenty of room for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaudeJ1 Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 15 hours ago, JohnA said: I was hoping/thinking I could get more headroom, of sorts. I want to try to reduce the recovery time from clipping and maybe increase the millisecond output into 4 ohms. These old low end receivers were built to pass the ratings test, but no more. It sounds fine, until it clips a little. You will have greater turn on surge as the caps charge. It may sag your line voltage for a very short time, but no worries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a9050lx Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 An inrush limiter shouldn't hurt anything while you're in doing the caps.Cheap and simple.Just give it some dissipation room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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