EEVblog 1486 – What you DIDN’T KNOW About Film Capacitor FAILURES!




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Summary: You might think you know how film capacitors fail and degrade in capacitance over time – self-healing due to surges, right? WRONG! Capacitor expert and AVX Fellow Ron Demcko confirms what’s really going on after a teardown of some failed and one good polypropylene X class capacitor. 00:00 – Teardown of a some failed film ...