Gossen T4 80 1 Capacitor Replacement

I recently got this 80V/1A Gossen (SIEMENS branded) T4-80-1. It was in original condition and some of the capacitors did not look quite so good.

Front

Cable grommet

The rubber cable grommet started to become oil after all these years, so I cut it out and replaced it with a new one after cleaning the mess up.

Inside Look

Some picture of the inside, I really like the manually wire wound power resistors.

I did not find any schematics, for reference here is what I measured:

  • Zeners: the black Zener diode at top next to the 2N3441 is 6.66-6.7V, the one at the bottom above the 1000uF capacitor is 7.2V. The two ones in a V-shape are 6.8V and the remaining is 12V.
  • Wire wound resistors: The four on the power transistor board and the current shunt are 1Ω. The curvy one is 0.09Ω-0.1Ω. The inrush limiter for the main reservoir capacitor (value not critical) is 0.4Ω. (Measured using 4-wire on both my HP 3478a and Keithley 196 for reference)

Replacing the capacitors

I left the main storage capacitor in place but put it out of circuit.

I used the following capacitors:

  • Würth 1000uF/200V 861221084017
  • CDE 1000uF/50V 108TTA050M
  • CDE 100uF/160V 107TTA160M
  • CDE 47uF/160V 476TTA160M

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