Ladies and Gentlemen of wwdx, doing some old microphone rebuilding and some things are comics into question. There's various types of electrolytic caps from general purpose, non polar, low impedance just to name a few. Quality capacitors is another important part as with anything else in this hobby as well.
So maybe I'm making this more complicated than it should but I'll ask anyways.
In the search for Rubycon 4.7uf 50 Volt electrolytic capacitors specifically the YK series I've run into the lack of them. First off they are a discontinued series and have been superceded by the PK series. That was a lot of dead end roads just learning that. So I'm believing the PK series is a general purpose capacitor and with the "going better" mentality it's led me into some dead ends as well. I think that's where I'm complicating it.
Is it that critical to stay with those exact specs when it comes to the rd104 mics I'm recapping? I would rather stay with the oe specs but is "better" really better in this circuit if I go with for example audio grade caps?
Semiconductor sites don't make it very easy to navigate their sites either.....
I appreciate your input
So maybe I'm making this more complicated than it should but I'll ask anyways.
In the search for Rubycon 4.7uf 50 Volt electrolytic capacitors specifically the YK series I've run into the lack of them. First off they are a discontinued series and have been superceded by the PK series. That was a lot of dead end roads just learning that. So I'm believing the PK series is a general purpose capacitor and with the "going better" mentality it's led me into some dead ends as well. I think that's where I'm complicating it.
Is it that critical to stay with those exact specs when it comes to the rd104 mics I'm recapping? I would rather stay with the oe specs but is "better" really better in this circuit if I go with for example audio grade caps?
Semiconductor sites don't make it very easy to navigate their sites either.....
I appreciate your input