[aurelius]

Hi Jim,

Almost finished building my Chime... looking forward to getting it up and running over the next couple of weeks.

In the process of ordering parts, I decided to upgrade all 1uF, 600V film caps (4 x B+ bypass, 2 x signal caps) to VH Audio OIMP caps.  (I have been curious about these for a while and decided to kill two birds with one stone).

Problem is, they're a tad bigger than the lead spacing on the board.  To install them, I put heat shrink around the leads and then bent the leads back under the capacitor body, then at right-angles to meet the hole spacing requirements.  Each capacitor is sitting maybe 1/4" above the board.

Is there a better way to do this?

Regards,

Mark C.

[hagtech]

Is there a better way to do this?

Not really.  Sometimes I glue them down with silicone to reduce vibrations.  Long leads act like guitar strings.

jh

[PatOMalley]

I have seen installation where the cap is on end so that one lead is very short and the other lead is longer coming down as shown below:





JH, Is there anything wrong with doing it this way?

[aurelius]

Thanks Jim & Pat.