23 Feb
2009
23 Feb
'09
12:44 p.m.
On Feb 23, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
Not to mention cheapness in commodity equipment and counterfeit
components. In fact I'd bet real money that these issues are the
culprits far more often than high frequency and high current. There
are components available that are designed to withstand such things,
and they're quite good.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
This is the
only popped electrolytic I have ever seen, in damn
near 30 years of fiddling with electronic stuff:
http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/blowncap.jpg
I do have tons of such caps, mostly from modern PC mainboards, ATX
power supplies and graphics cards. This is *very* common today due
to the high frequency and high current nature of the designs. 