higher voltage capacitor replacement

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Nuck Futs

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higher voltage capacitor replacement
« on: 2 Aug 2010, 06:46 pm »
I am thinking of replacing my amp's stock .1uF 400VDC coupling caps with Mundorf .1uF 1200VDC caps and wonder if the vastly increased voltage rating would have any negative affect. Would the Mundorf's form properly "seeing" less than their rated voltage? Would capacitance value be affected at all?

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JoshK

Re: higher voltage capacitor replacement
« Reply #1 on: 2 Aug 2010, 06:52 pm »
There are some subtle technical differences, but for this purposes, if you can make them fit, they'll work.

Steve

Re: higher voltage capacitor replacement
« Reply #2 on: 2 Aug 2010, 11:25 pm »
I am thinking of replacing my amp's stock .1uF 400VDC coupling caps with Mundorf .1uF 1200VDC caps and wonder if the vastly increased voltage rating would have any negative affect. Would the Mundorf's form properly "seeing" less than their rated voltage? Would capacitance value be affected at all?

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I agree with Josh except to say in my experience the sound can change, usually not too much.

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NagysAudio

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Re: higher voltage capacitor replacement
« Reply #3 on: 3 Aug 2010, 05:14 am »
Replacing a capacitor with a higher voltage capacitor has virtually no impact to the correct function of the component. This is a non issue.

peranders

Re: higher voltage capacitor replacement
« Reply #4 on: 25 Aug 2010, 09:15 pm »
It might actually since a physically big cap has probably worse HF properties like resonance frequency.