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Can electrolytic capacitors freeze and burst?
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coppice:
Electrolytics don't all use the same electrolyte. They fail at different temperatures. Most won't do well after a spell at -55C, while mil spec ones are required to. Most components have two temperature ranges. Storage and operating. Some have three. Long term storage, short term storage, and operating. For electrolytics believe those ranges.
Xena E:

--- Quote from: cybermaus on Today at 04:19:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on Today at 04:04:17 pm ---The old-school antidote for ethylene glycol was ethanol.  So if you accidentally ingest some antifreeze or capacitor electrolyte and you are stranded in a remote area, the thing to do is get drunk.

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"Help, I accidentally drank some poison" "Here, have some different poison to neutralize"
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Interestingly, with all the side-effects of all common medicine, this is actually pretty normal medical advise. The trick is to know exactly which one, and use fancier words.

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bdunham7 is 100% correct.

Get drunk and stay drunk until you get to a hospital with dialysis facilities. The ethanol will competitively inhibit ethylene glycol metabolism, and formation and accumulation of the toxic metabolites.

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PS.
Just checked:
Modern treatment is Fomepizole... a very expensive drug. Swigging capacitor juice will cost you about €5k just for medication.
cybermaus:

--- Quote from: Xena E on Today at 05:21:39 pm ---Fomepizole
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See? fancier words.

(actually, all of this, from ethanol to fomepizole, was in the linked video)
bdunham7:

--- Quote from: Xena E on Today at 05:21:39 pm ---Get drunk and stay drunk until you get to a hospital with dialysis facilities. The ethanol will competitively inhibit ethylene glycol metabolism, and formation and accumulation of the toxic metabolites.

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Two things I remember about this are 1) you have to be very drunk, the ethanol was typically given via IV because the amount would make many people too sick to drink it all and 2) you'll eventually eliminate the glycol on your own because there are two routes--one it is eliminated directly and without harm and the other it is converted to oxalic acid which destroys your kidneys.  I'm sure there's more to it, but I remember the oxalic acid because I had a kidney stone (not ethylene glycol related) and it was mentioned as being part of the process.
Xena E:

--- Quote from: cybermaus on Today at 05:24:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Xena E on Today at 05:21:39 pm ---Fomepizole
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See? fancier words.

(actually, all of this, from ethanol to fomepizole, was in the linked video)

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Exactly, fancier words, (had to Gurgle it again, as I'd forgotten already. Over the years too much capacitor juice got to me brane  :-DD)

And just in case readers couldn't be bothered to watch the video.

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