9 Oct
2010
9 Oct
'10
2:30 p.m.
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, William Donzelli wrote:
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 16:59:51 -0400
From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: capacitor aging claim
I remember draining bad capacitors when I was quite young (I abused the 600V
capacitors by using them for strobe lights charged to 2 KV) And am pretty sure
that the Vitamin Q ones were PCB (light green slightly sweet spelling fluid)
But is has been many years so I could be wrong.
Peter Wallace
Maybe its a vintage thing. I had some WW2 vintage
10 UF @ 600V VitaminQ
capacitors that definately contained PCBs
What evidence do you have? It is a very common belief - even the
hazmat guys assume so (and every time they have to be shown that they
are wrong).
Also, I do not think there were Vitamin Qs during World War 2.
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Will