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Old 1st Dec 2017, 5:12 pm   #8
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Default Re: Electrolytic capacitor fails after 1 hour in service!

It’s a decoupling cap sitting right on a chip power switching at 320KHz. Perhaps it is indeed greatly derated in this application.
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