19 Jan
2012
19 Jan
'12
5:11 a.m.
And a monitoring circuit to monitor a CAP in circuit
is not going to be easy
anyway. Electrolytic CAPS are changing their capacitance drastically over
temperature, and actually the worst is, that going bad, they are getting hot
during startup, where you have the worst ripple on the power line.
Such circuits are well documented and available.
Mainframe equipment (or maybe I should say *real* mainframe equipment
- zing!) tends to have such circuitry by default.
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Will