I have a original set of Time Windows.
I saw a video a couple of weeks ago of Steve Eberbach (time window designer) who said he would recap the Time Windows speakers.
The only schematics of the crossovers I could find where on Steve's patients. They look like they could be the design I have, not sure.
So digging into the crossover board, I found two values of electrolytics; four 47uF and one 10uF.
Here's my question;
When I think about recapping, I think about replacing the caps in the signal path. There are two pics showing Fig3 and Fig4 from the patient. Fig3 is the mid crossover and Fig4 is the tweeter crossover.
There are what appear to be poly type caps valued at 3uF. I was not planning on recapping these.
In Fig4, there are two 47uF caps that are more of a shunt filter. Do these need to be replaced? It seems like the only caps in the signal path are the 3uF caps? What are the advantages, if any, in replacing caps not in the signal path to the speaker?
The mid speaker, in Fig3, does have electrolytics in the signal path.
Thanks for the help,
Jerry