As I have shared before my electronics experience is some 20 years ago in the Navy and then some time working on consumer electronics in the later 80's. All the gear I worked on was not certifiable the way O'Scopes are.
Anyway, to the question. Are there any limits (beyond the obvious physical size, and economical limitations) when dealing with capacitors and suitable substitution? For example replacing a 10uf 25V capacitor with a 10uf 50V of suitable tolerance. Is size/money constraints the only thing keeping one from subbing a 10uf at 100V or 200V, or 1000MV <---got'a love taking things to the limit as that cap would likely be a large as a house as a guess ? --->
Along the same lines. If one is replacing a capacitor in a scope and scopes with later serial numbers show that the value has moved. i.e. a 10uf cap in the board but manual shows the value was upgraded to 22uf at some serial number after the one you have. Is the best sub another 10uf or a 22uf of suitable voltage in this situation?
Seams like this last part was touched on relatively recently. However, I could not find it with my search skills. Unfortunately my memory is not up to the task either.
I hope this is not to far off topic. Thank you as always for the bandwidth and replies.
Rob
