What you DIDN’T KNOW About Film Capacitor FAILURES! (EEVblog – 1486)
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ABSTRACT
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.