bassplayer Posted March 11, 2021 Report Share Posted March 11, 2021 Hello, I have a pair of decent looking Advent 3002 speakers on the way. I will need to replace the foam surrounds and while I'm at it I will replace the caps and I would like to have the new caps in hand when the speakers arrive. So, my question is: does anyone happen to know what cap values I will be needing for these 3002's? My surrounds are already on hand and once I get started I won't want to stop. A recap on these should be pretty straight forward. Any help with this information would be great appreciated..... Cheers! 🙂 Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CYNR Posted March 12, 2021 Report Share Posted March 12, 2021 Hello Bassplayer: It looks like a32 mf and a 5 mf cap + a 3ohm resistor , one pic showed a 4+1 mf cap parallel and another pic showed a 5 mf single cap. There are also two inductors one iron core one air core . Crossover = 2800 hz. Hope this helps Lonny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassplayer Posted March 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2021 Hi Lonny, Thanks so much for coming through for me! Cheers! 😁 Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CYNR Posted March 13, 2021 Report Share Posted March 13, 2021 No problem, I love my Baby Advent II's after a crossover tune up. pictures of your crossovers??? Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassplayer Posted March 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2021 Received the Advent 3002 speakers. Caps should be here in a couple of days. Here's a shot of the originals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CYNR Posted March 16, 2021 Report Share Posted March 16, 2021 Looking good ,How are the cabs?? As I mentioned earlier one pic I saw had a 4mf and a 1mf cap parallel from the factory, maybe they ran out of 5's that day?? Lonny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKent Posted March 16, 2021 Report Share Posted March 16, 2021 5uF is pretty hard to find these days. 4.7uF is a good substitute. Erse makes a 5uF https://www.erseaudio.com/Products/PEx250v/5uF-250-volt-Metallized-Polyester-Mylar-Film-Capacitor or this 5.1uF https://www.erseaudio.com/Products/PulseXAll/MPX25-03-5-60 32uF is also not easy to find. You could use 2x16uF or here's a 33uF from Erse: https://www.erseaudio.com/Products/PEx250v/33uF-250-volt-Metallized-Polyester-Mylar-Film-Capacitor or https://www.erseaudio.com/Products/PulseXAll/MPX25-03-33-00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassplayer Posted March 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2021 Lonny: The cabs look good. There are fine line scratches on the bottom of the cabs and few on the top. No cracks, no goughes, dents or cracks. I figure these are vinyl wrapped? Some of the scratches show up lighter than the vinyl itself and after I went over the cabs with pledge they kinda disappeared but a very small percentage showed back up. I'll go over them again. But when standing just a couple feet away you really can't see any of it so overall they seem to be pretty good. I knew one of the grill covers had (in pictures anyway) what appeared to be stained a bit, a light type of stain from the right center on down. I thought it was maybe sunstained but..... it smelled like strong dog urine. I washed it real good and most of the smell is gone but the stain is not. So, I guess I'll have to change out the cloth on them as well. Bummer...☹️. I only paid $25.00 for them so I figure I'll still be ahead after everything is said and done. I did notice one thing however. After washing the one grill, after it dried it started the frame to start bending a little. I guess the fabric was shrinking. Maybe when I attach new fabric I won't try to get them real tight, just on even then after wet them down a little and let the fabric stretch itself tight? Not sure how to handle that. The woofers are cleaned up and ready for the new surrounds. While I'm doing everything should I go ahead and clean up the gap in the tweeters and add new ferrofluid? A lot to think about but I'm up for it! 😁 Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassplayer Posted March 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2021 JKent: Thanks so much for the information. I really appreciate the help and guidance. I'll be posting pictures when everything is said and done! 👍 Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassplayer Posted March 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2021 Recap of both 3002's are complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassplayer Posted March 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2021 So I finally got the 3002's finished up. I also cleaned and refilled the tweeter gap's (for lack of a better term) with new ferrofluid. The grill cloth on one of them was toast from what I thought to be dog urine, so I ordered some new cloth for the grills. Replacing the speaker surrounds went well. I used a 50hz sine wave to be sure the woofers were centered properly. I must say, these have better bass response that I thought they would have. They sound very good in my small listening space. I thought they came out nice. Anyway, here's a couple of pictures along with a pic of one of the speakers showing the rotted surrounds when I first got them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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