Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-29 Thread KURT PETERS
Just curious, I wonder what's inside the blue one? :-) Kurt -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:53:44 -0500 From: Dave McGuire mcgu...@neurotica.com Subject: Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors To: gEDA user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-29 Thread Bill Gatliff
KURT PETERS wrote: Just curious, I wonder what's inside the blue one? :-) Turtles. All the way down. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-29 Thread Dan McMahill
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Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 December 2008, Bill Gatliff wrote: KURT PETERS wrote: Just curious, I wonder what's inside the blue one? :-) Turtles. All the way down. :) ROTFLMAO! b.g. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-28 Thread der Mouse
[Electrolytics] can explode pretty violently, so let me tell you a story. [...785V on a 450V cap...serious dent in plaster...] My exploding cap story is not quite so impressive, but I know I certainly found it convincing. I put together a circuit - can't even remember what it was, now - on

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 December 2008, der Mouse wrote: [Electrolytics] can explode pretty violently, so let me tell you a story. [...785V on a 450V cap...serious dent in plaster...] My exploding cap story is not quite so impressive, but I know I certainly found it convincing. I put together a circuit -

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-28 Thread Robas, Teodor
Dylan Smith wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, der Mouse wrote: [Electrolytics] can explode pretty violently, so let me tell you a story. [...785V on a 450V cap...serious dent in plaster...] My exploding cap story is not quite so impressive, but I know I certainly found it convincing.

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-28 Thread andrewm
Someone wrote: [Electrolytics] can explode pretty violently, so let me tell you a story. [...785V on a 450v cap...serious dent in plaster...] Robas, Teodor wrote: SNIP The resulting flame was always entertaining ! Sometimes the ASIC wanted to take all the punch and

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Dec 27, 2008, at 5:40 AM, Robas, Teodor wrote: Do not count on this kind of capacitors: http://deep-blue.ro/tmp/chinese%20capacitor.jpg :)) Oh. My. God. *shudder* That does it...I'm now going to stick EVERY ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR I BUY on a bridge before I use it.

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 December 2008, Robas, Teodor wrote: Do not count on this kind of capacitors: http://deep-blue.ro/tmp/chinese%20capacitor.jpg :)) What a ripoff. No way in hell that would last more than a day, if that long with 50 volts of bias on it, (I'd guess 10 minutes max) and I'd have

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-27 Thread Dan McMahill
Gene Heskett wrote: They can explode pretty violently, so let me tell you a story. Back in the mid-60's I came across a tube type, mobile cb radio that had to be one of the few attempts to build one for a 6 volt vehicle system, and predated the old Johnson whiteface by probably 10 years.

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-27 Thread Dave McGuire
On Dec 27, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Dan McMahill wrote: They can explode pretty violently, so let me tell you a story. Back in the mid-60's I came across a tube type, mobile cb radio that had to be one of the few attempts to build one for a 6 volt vehicle system, and predated the old

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 December 2008, Dan McMahill wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: They can explode pretty violently, so let me tell you a story. Back in the mid-60's I came across a tube type, mobile cb radio that had to be one of the few attempts to build one for a 6 volt vehicle system, and predated

gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-26 Thread gene
What does it mean when manufactures specify 'Endurance @ temp' or 'life time @ temp'? For example, one company claims: Endurance : 105 C 1000 h to 5000h Then they further state that after testing at 105C with maximum ripple current applied, that when the part is cooled to 20C, it will then meet

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-26 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 21:00 -0500, gene wrote: What does it mean when manufactures specify 'Endurance @ temp' or 'life time @ temp'? For example, one company claims: Endurance : 105 C 1000 h to 5000h Then they further state that after testing at 105C with maximum ripple current applied,

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-26 Thread John Luciani
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:00 PM, gene carzr...@optonline.net wrote: What does it mean when manufactures specify 'Endurance @ temp' or 'life time @ temp'? For example, one company claims: Endurance : 105 C 1000 h to 5000h Then they further state that after testing at 105C with maximum ripple

Re: gEDA-user: electrolytic capacitors

2008-12-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 December 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 21:00 -0500, gene wrote: What does it mean when manufactures specify 'Endurance @ temp' or 'life time @ temp'? For example, one company claims: Endurance : 105 C 1000 h to 5000h Then they further state that after testing