Re: Charging Capacitors

OK, shoot me afterwards. I won't complain much.

What's this with "reforming cpacitors" and such? You have a bad cap,
throw it in the trash where it belongs. Buy a new one.

What made it go bad in the first place? You think "reforming" it or
whatever will make it OK? It was either old or defective or dried-
out. Aluminum electrolytics use a water-based electrolyte. This
electrolyte dries out after 20+ years. You cannot replace it. Nothing
you do will restore a dried-out cap to good as new health. It will go
bad again and again when you put in service after "reforming".

Whatever you have attached to this limping cripple of a capacitor may
get damaged as a result of it dying again. And it will; remember, it
was dead when you "reformed" it.

Geez,.. spend the bucks, get a new cap and just move on. The biggest
one can't cost more than twenty bucks.

OK, I have my blindfold on and I'm smoking pre-execution cigarette.
My hands are tied behind my back and I'm ready for the firing squad.:-
)

Mariss

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, wanliker@... wrote:
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> Dave we have no argument, it is just that I like to handle them a
little
> more gently, but I learned a long time ago to keep one hand in my
back pocket.
> But I did want to point out that a high discharge rate stresses the
entire
> capacitor.
> bill
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