In Reply to: Metallized caps require significant break-in time... posted by Interstage Tranny on March 26, 2017 at 19:51:04:
I do believe in film capacitor break-in, and for more critical applications, I will put them across the AC mains for a couple of days.
A materials engineer working with polypropylene told me that he found it plausible that changes would occur at the boundary between foil and dielectric, especially with applied AC voltages.
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- RE: Metallized caps require significant break-in time... - Thermionic27609 13:52:38 03/27/17 (6)
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- RE: Metallized caps require significant break-in time... - Thermionic27609 15:51:32 03/27/17 (4)
- RE: Metallized caps require significant break-in time... - Steve O 17:26:26 03/27/17 (3)
- RE: Metallized caps require significant break-in time... - Michael Samra 17:49:25 03/27/17 (2)
- RE: Metallized caps require significant break-in time... - Thermionic27609 18:30:43 03/27/17 (1)
- OK... - Steve O 18:45:49 03/27/17 (0)