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Old 10th May 2011, 5:32 pm   #17
kalee20
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Default Re: Beware!

I don't think it's a silly question at all Chris. But I don't know the answer - if they had been leaky I could have understood overheating and burning, but not otherwise.

I'm all for encouraging murphyv310 and twocvbloke to send failure reports to Rifa (part of Kemet these days) - the PME271 range is still in production and field failures do provide reputable companies the opportunity to improve their products, and design-out the failure modes in future designs.

Here is some information on these capacitors. Interestingly they reckon that metallised paper is superior to metallised plastic for repetitive transients.
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