[Chris Hornbeck]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:23:45 -0700, Tiger Luck
wrote:

The best odds-on bet is that despite everything posted
the cap is reversed. Sorry, but that's the main line.

Not a chance... cap installed correctly and worked for years.

Are you saying that *ONE* capacitor has failed? Not
a series of replacements? The thing's 30 years old - *all*
of the electrolytic cap's are bad now. That's life.

Replace *all* of the electrolytics and move on. They're
*all* bad. Parts are cheap.


BTW, if your question had been about repeated failures,
the diagnosis would be: the cap got too hot. It got too
hot because it was defective, or it was exposed to too
high a voltage, or it was exposed to reverse voltage,
or it was cooked by ESR.

So, for future troubleshooting, eliminate these four
and you'll have only a mystery remaining!


Good fortune,
Chris Hornbeck