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@tubetime @tubetime You can tell that's a vintage capacitor. A modern variant is likely to have "DO NOT TOUCH OR LICK CONTACTS" on it instead. @tubetime This is just subtle enough to make you double check your math and make sure you have it oriented in the correct polarity. Unless it's a bit too subtle and then you f#@k around and find out how much energy is in that misapplied capacitor. We used to say "just put a BFC across the output of that lumpy 48v full wave rectified transformer and you'll be fine" @tubetime being an electronics apprentice in the 1980s was sometimes a Trial By Fire. Charging a big High Voltage electrolytic cap, wrapping its leads around it and tossing it to the apprentice was a thing. Ow-diddly-ow. Then connecting a tantalum cap backwards across the output of a DC supply and switching it on just as the apprentice walks up… Good Times? |
@tubetime Isn't hazard this game people play? Then misapplication would be the correct use of the thing...