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Aluminum can caps' ripple current musings
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06-08-2013, 07:08 AM
I use recently manufactured 400 or 450 VDC caps and use them pretty much for everythng; any doubt I do a series job, and always employ bleeder resistors. Common sense, if not in the original design, really helps in the heat department. Seen enough just plain brain dead sets as we all have.
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