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Aside from vacuum
tubes occasionally going bad, capacitors were undoubtedly the most frequently failing
components in television and radio sets. All electronics of the era (and earlier)
of this 1954 issue of Radio & Television News magazine had chassis
full of high voltages and high temperatures which really strained the integrity
of capacitors, especially electrolytic types used in power supplies and plate circuit
decoupling circuits. As if a couple hundred volts wasn't challenging enough, TV
cathode ray tubes (CRTs) often had bias voltages over 10 kilovolts. Most of
us over 60 years old recall at least one instance of a sizzle followed by a loud
pop, followed by the television going dark when a capacitor failed. It always seemed
to happen at the most intense point of a program. Of course when that kind of failure
occurred you knew the set would be out of service for a while since Dad wouldn't
be able to fix it by pulling out all the tubes and taking to the hardware to test
them all on the automated machine. In our very low income house with five kids,
everyone scrambled looking for change in pants pockets and under sofa cushions to
help fund a rapid repair. Repair shops replaced a lot of electrolytic capacitors
(referred to as 'lytics in this ad) at the time.
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Posted November 4, 2022
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