Author Topic: Where to buy components to explode some capacitors  (Read 4556 times)

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Offline BradC

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Re: Where to buy components to explode some capacitors
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2017, 04:29:15 am »
Brad C-
Sorry, I didn't make the anecdote very clear (plus it was a bench grinder...)
The cap was a motor run cap inside the cast iron base.
The odd thing is that the grinder had run for many years without a problem. The cap was original; the unit made in Taiwan, when Taiwan made some half decent electric tools. The cap is clearly marked as '120V working voltage' !!
BT

No it was perfectly clear. It appears my sense of humour is not easily understood.
 

Online Ian.M

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Re: Where to buy components to explode some capacitors
« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2017, 04:38:36 am »
'Dry' humour as plain text in a technical forum is often misunderstood (or deliberately misinterpreted by pedants).  Tag it with an appropriate smiley and even the pedants realise its just for the LOLs.
 

Offline BurningTantalum

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Re: Where to buy components to explode some capacitors
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2017, 02:29:19 pm »
Sorry Brad,  I blame it on my Pom sense of humour, or lack of it !

I was rather amazed and disturbed as to why the OP didn't want to investigate the charge/discharge curves of caps, or something educational- although I seem to recall a young BT hanging electrolytics, connected to a diode and the shop Variac, out of the workshop window.
BT in WA
 


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