The Kenwood Chefette blew its fuse today. Wretched thing is only 31 years old, too.There is a 0.1uF capacitor across the mains input, which is now registering as a dead short on a multimeter, and I know this to be a Bad Thing. It is shunted by a 5.something megohm resistor.I realise that I could send off 5 quid and as much again for postage to an on-line spares stockist, or I could fight the crowds to get to Maplins or the famous Bob Potts's shop tomorrow, but what the worst that would happen if I simply left it out?

Just a potential bit of interference to your radio.

Mains interference capacitor?

Dec 22, 2005 21 Replies

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Dave 20 years ago

That makes sense. But it looks like you missed my point :-)

WTF is 100 uf resistor?

Dave

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meow2222 20 years ago

I dont know why you think I missed the obvious. Why do people imagine these things?

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