After weeks/months of trying to get my Cornell Dubilier BF-50 cap analyzer to show what is expected for a good cap vs. a known bad cap, I reached out to Cornell Dubilier. Well Cornell Dubilier didn’t have any more information to offer me besides what I already knew from the BF-50 owner’s and service manuals. […]
“Help”: My Cornell Dubilier BF-50 Is Testing Open Circuit as Good | Note : Treble Bleeds Halted
I was using my Cornell Dubilier BF-50 (vintage) capacitor analyzer with all of the right things showing on the “Magic Eye” 6E5 (Philips JAN (Mil-Spec)) electron tube’s eye for leakage, short, and open tests. By the way, the BF-50 uses a 12A7 (Tungsol) electron tube for both rectification of the AC input and amplification. Both […]
Cornell Dubilier BF-50 Capacitor Analyzer
In order to verify the vintage capacitor collection I slowly attained all perform to spec, I started to look for capacitor analyzers. The most well known is the Sprague TEL-OHMIKE series. Trying to find one of the Sprague designs at a reasonable price is difficult though. The TEL-OHMIKE brings $175-$250 on Ebay and I wasn’t […]