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Post #1 by Surfheart
Source Forum68kMLA
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Post DateMon, 9 Mar 2015 - 00:57
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/confusion-about-replacement-ac-film-caps.1467/
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Hi again ;)

I have a mac plus that trips my house power soon after it's booted.

From another thread I found that the likely culprits are the two small capacitors mounted vertically close to the power switch.

I desoldered them last night and noticed that they are cracked.

The markings on them are 4700pF 250V Y class.

I'm in Australia and there is a local component shop called Jaycar that carry this sort of stuff but I can only find X2 class caps.

Like these :  250V AC Mains - Metallised Polypropylene Capacitors - X2 10nF

Their full range of these types of capacitors is here

There are others there  with an N designation for which I have no idea what that means, e.g. 22N, 47N

I've read elsewhere that it's not good to replace Y class with X class and I don't want to blow anything up or start fires ;)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

mp.ls