[AR] Re: Recommendations on capacitors in vacuum

  • From: Peter Fairbrother <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 03:32:23 +0100

On 04/07/2021 03:03, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

(though quality well-sealed electrolytic caps can last a very long time - Last year I was refurbishing some early computer monitors (CUB's for BBC micros) and the

WIMA  pp

X2 caps were shot to s***, while *ALL* the

Rubycon

electrolytics in the CRT monitors, which had been operating 8 hours per day 5 days per week for 20 years then stored for 15 years, were with only one exception in about a dozen monitors, a physically very small 1uF cap, still well in spec)


Peter F

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