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Old 2nd Dec 2017, 6:06 pm   #36
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Default Re: Electrolytic capacitor fails after 1 hour in service!

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Just a thought - it was the right way round wasn't it? 18V is about what I'd expect to gradually destroy an electrolytic, climaxing in an hour or so.
I did place it with the correct polarity.
A place where I worked had a whole batch of electrolytic caps (from reputable supplier / manufacture) delivered labelled with the wrong polarity - that was fun (and a load of work to get all the caps taken out again delivered on that GRN)
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