> From: tony duell > it's quite possible they started off at the top end of that range, have > deteriorated over the years, and are still within spec. Of course > nobody can prove that (unless there are records of the values meaured > 50 years ago)
Well, I don't know about 50 years, but I know some of the restorations (where people said they checked that their electrolytics were still withina spec) were a while back, so _iff_ they have records of what they measured, it would be interesting to see if there's any drift from then, to now. But I have no idea what numbers they have, they'd have to speak to that. > I have no idea what was measured. The capacitance value is not the > whole story by any means. In fact the most important thing most of the > time is ESR Again, I have no idea what they measured, so they'd have to respond on that. Noel