![]() But before you start poking around in your organ, please note that Hammonds Can Kill You. There's an excellent reference on capacitor replacement at. Many feel that the capacitors should be replaced as a matter of course ( Preventative Maintenance.) Possible symptoms range from hum to tonal degradation to explosion and fire. Eventually, old caps will cause problems. The wax-and-paper caps also "dry out" and have a similar lifetime.Īs Tone Wheel Hammonds ( Leslies too) are in general, twenty-nine to sixty-eight years old, their caps are long since past their "pull date". They have a shelf-life, usually stated to be on the order of ten to twenty years. This happen whether in use, or sitting on a shelf in a warehouse - in fact, use may prolong their life, see ? Capacitor Reforming). The electrolytic capacitors in old (and new) electronic equipment use a wet dielectric - they dry out with age. ![]()
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