Re: Heathkit IO-4205 Power Supply Caps



Good call. Forest & Trees. I would have missed that.

And without calling everything out line by line, thank you both for your responses....

Hello,

First, I am a complete noob with high voltage stuff. I'm learning, but I need help by someone looking over my shoulder.

I recently came into posession of a Heathkit IO-4205 5MHz Dual Trace Oscilloscope. The documentation is copyright 1978. I'm told it works.

I opened it up to check the caps before I applied power, and found the following black caps and wanted to know what they were. They are on the power supply board. I was able to read the name and model and came up with, "Nytronics 162J-1, 0.1uF, 20% tolerance, 2000VDC."
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Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello from Southern California!

My name is Adam, but in my online presence I am known as eryjus.

I am spending more and more time trying to understand linear electronics. As a programmer, I see lots of 1's and 0's and can conceptualize digital electronics easy enough. Knowing digital electronics is just a special purpose subset of linear electronics does not make things any easier on this old man's brain.

I have a few projects in the hopper and I am looking to find some guidance here. More...