Yes - most of the bad electrolytic caps I've seen blow their tops, except the large 400 volt in my transmitter power supply back in the days when they glowed in the dark. I fed it 450 volts, it lasted probably 20 hours, then blew it's bottom out - very smoky and stinky. I replaced it with a 500 volt cap.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:47 PM fmiser via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Meade wrote: > > > Sure 'nough, blown cap, very obvious. > > That is not a typical blown cap from dialectic failure - that is, > cheap capacitors. The tell-tale on that failure is it swells. > Sometimes to the point of exploding. > > No evidence of swelling, so the capacitor may actually be okay. > But clearly the smoke has been let out, and something is very > unhappy. Conductive glue sounds like a very valid culprit. > > Is that a hole in the side of the "bad" cap? Or just smoke damage > to the outside? What I'm seeing sure looks like smoke came out of > something next to the cap - not the cap itself. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
