Why .047 cap???
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KoreanGuitarMan
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Re: Why .047 cap???
Personal Preference...!!!!
There is no one correct answer to cap values. Try one. Don't like it? Try another. Caps and wire are cheap.
This is why you should own decent quality soldering gear.
Someone else can better elucidate the differences of capacitor values.
Personal Preference...!!!!
There is no one correct answer to cap values. Try one. Don't like it? Try another. Caps and wire are cheap.
This is why you should own decent quality soldering gear.
Someone else can better elucidate the differences of capacitor values.
Re: Why .047 cap???
Or it could be a typo......or a cut and paste error.
I've had up to .1uf caps for certain humbuckers in certain guitars for the bridge posi. In that case it was to remove a specific section of treble bite without having to drop down the tone control too low and take out other things.
Or it could be a typo......or a cut and paste error.
I've had up to .1uf caps for certain humbuckers in certain guitars for the bridge posi. In that case it was to remove a specific section of treble bite without having to drop down the tone control too low and take out other things.
LtKojak
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Re: Why .047 cap???
And sometimes it's "just becausen't".
My money is on "just because".
And sometimes it's "just becausen't".
beaubrummels
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Re: Why .047 cap???
My guess is Seymour put his humbuckers into a Tele harness originally which would have had 250k pots and a .047 cap and that number just stuck in his drawings over the years.
My guess is Seymour put his humbuckers into a Tele harness originally which would have had 250k pots and a .047 cap and that number just stuck in his drawings over the years.
Re: Why .047 cap???
when i started really getting into guitar in the 90's thats what everyone recommended. .047 for buckers and .022 for singles, but things were quite different music wise back then. i think .022 is a good all around cap value for tone controls and going up or down from there is more about taste and rig. if you are running a jcm900 and 4x12 loaded with 75's then a .047 might be the perfect value
when i started really getting into guitar in the 90's thats what everyone recommended. .047 for buckers and .022 for singles, but things were quite different music wise back then. i think .022 is a good all around cap value for tone controls and going up or down from there is more about taste and rig. if you are running a jcm900 and 4x12 loaded with 75's then a .047 might be the perfect value
Re: Why .047 cap???
It's sort of like how they recommend you change motor oil every 3 months or 3,000 miles; it's just made up numbers intended to answer a question before someone has to ask.
It's sort of like how they recommend you change motor oil every 3 months or 3,000 miles; it's just made up numbers intended to answer a question before someone has to ask.
Re: Why .047 cap???
The bees were .022 nominally. Quite a few have drifted high over the years. The pots also have drifted high in value too in many cases. ts not unusual for those old centralabs to be 600K or so.
The bees were .022 nominally. Quite a few have drifted high over the years. The pots also have drifted high in value too in many cases. ts not unusual for those old centralabs to be 600K or so.
