Replacing the power caps
Fairly straight forward and always a good thing to do. Originals in the matamp we’re starting to show signs of wear and were covered in electrical tape for some reason or another so i thought it’d be best to just stick a new uprated pair in there.
First off it’s always a great idea to take a picture so you know exactly where the wires are going when you go to put it back together.
Then remove all the wires, carefully, don’t wanna be scorching all the other ones! Heres the time if you think any of the wires look tired or they might fail to replace them. Always better safe than sorry. Try and use matching colour ones so it looks good
Next unscrew them from the chassis and make sure you don’t lose any of the washers, it’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine to start work on an amp and find half the screws and washers are missing. Didn’t take a picture of me taking it out unfortunatly.
Take the old capacitors out of the clips and put the new ones in. Heres pictures of the old caps, with the electrical tape off. Had to replace one of the capacitor clips since one of them had been bent out of shape due to the over wide caps forced in.
New ones stuck in clips and then soldered back in! Job’s a good un, onto cleaning the amp up next then it should be ready for it’s first firing up!
remember to keep your wiring tidy since it’s easier to follow if you’ve done something wrong and it’s not a rats nest.