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Galaxy 1000 Amp Needs help!!!!

newoldguy

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hey everyone thanks for reading and any help in identifying the part values... well here goes My Galaxy 1000 has 4 8975 tubes i was talking the other night and my meter got real bright then smoke show, (ugh great ) i believe 2 capacitors on the back of the ant load blew here are some pictures i took it shows 1 still there the other popped, so i thought i would replace the one and im guessing i hooked it to the wrong spot well now both are gone so time to ask for help does anyone know the values of both caps and where they hookup???
Just to add i did find a 1000uf 50volt cap that was bad also and it is replaced im guessing that might of been the reason for the caps on the tuner to go out.
 

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From your description, could be these two. But from your picture, they look too small to be 1.6 Kv and 7.5 Kv rated caps.
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David
 
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From your description, could be these two. But from your picture, they look too small to be 1.6 Kv and 7.5 Kv rated caps.
View attachment 41122

73
David
Im thinking the same thing and after looking at my before pic im thinking one lead goes to the coil around the coax which goes to the meter the other the white one well it was white after it blew i am thinking it went to the tuner the 7.5 k as a filter thanks alot for the reply i will try to work with that
 
The tiny black disc cap is connected to the "gimmick" capacitor, made from insulated wire wound around the center conductor of the output coax. It serves to feed into a diode to drive the relative-output meter. Good chance that's what's connected to the other end of the gray wire that disappears into the left side of the pic.

If the black disc were to fail, it should clobber the meter circuit.

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The tiny black disc cap is connected to the "gimmick" capacitor, made from insulated wire wound around the center conductor of the output coax. It serves to feed into a diode to drive the relative-output meter. Good chance that's what's connected to the other end of the gray wire that disappears into the left side of the pic.

If the black disc were to fail, it should clobber the meter circuit.

73
do you know the value of that cap ? and after looking closer at it i believe you are rite also the other cap i believe it might of went to the tuner ?
 
New old guy,
From nomad’s response, below are the capacitors he is referring to. As far as the voltage tolerance I can only assume it is a pretty low voltage circuit. A 50v or 100v should suffice here.
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Of course, if you can squeeze a 1KV cap in the space (shouldn’t be a problem on this chassis) it would be a safe replacement.

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David
 
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New old guy,
From nomad’s response, below are the capacitors he is referring to. As far as the voltage tolerance I can only assume it is a pretty low voltage circuit. A 50v or 100v should suffice here.
View attachment 41136
Of course, if you can squeeze a 1KV cap in the space (shouldn’t be a problem on this chassis) it would be a safe replacement.

73
David
definately sounds better then kv caps those are huge i should have the value you mentioned im going to give it a try thanks for the reply
 

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