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What voltage caps for tone?

Bluesey

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I've read on previous posts to use .022 or .22, or .015 depending on taste. They seem to come in several different voltages. What is the appropriate voltage for them to be? Also where can the good ones still be had?
 

Sean

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I believe the wattage is irrelevant. And you can't, unfortunately, Angela Components had 'em, but they're all gone.
 

darkburst

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There are a lot of places to get caps, you just need to do some research. I'm not sure why everybody seems to think Angela is the only place. They had some Gudeman that were nothing more than a mil spec cap copy of a Sprague Vitamin Q, that were real popular here. Those are gone but check eBay or do a search. You should be able to find some caps in the values you are wanting.

I was able to find some Sprague Black Beauty red label .027 400vdc, Vitamin Q .027 400vdc and West Cap (mil spec) .022 200vdc for testing with my bridge pup. I was looking for something different than the Gudeman .015 for the bridge, though I like it on my neck pup.

I've found that the values of these old caps vary a lot from the stated value but not as much with the mil spec. Keep that in mind when buying a certain value, but then again the old .022 Sprague bumblebees that were the late 50's are not measuring anywhere near .022 anymore. More like .033 or higher, sometimes much higher.

While the volts won't matter, often times the higher volts are bigger caps and you may have an issue fitting them in.
 
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Sean

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Lesson In How To Make A Horse's Ass Of Yourself, no 23567 (I've been doing this for years).

Thanks dude for the *correct* info! :)
 
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