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Did you ever get around to testing your theory to see if the new capacitors fixed your issue? After doing some more research myself I found that it's actually okay for the rated voltage to go higher with tantalum caps because they explode (and would obviously do more damage to surrounding...

This is an excellent post, curious to know your results. I would usually always suggest trying to stay as close to spec as the original component as possible when doing these types of repairs, but it might be worthwhile to go with the 470 uF over 330 uF in this situation because any degradation...