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In Reply to: RE: Not Safe posted by jea48 on August 12, 2016 at 14:01:35:
I have edited my OP on this issue. I shouldn't have been able to since it is so old and there have been responses. Don't know what's up with that. I did not edit the language in the original post. Aerovox dry type (and oil type) lighting caps are continuous use caps. The tutorials say that shock risk is not a concern with across the line caps and there is a fire danger upon failure in short mode. You can read the exact language in a number of spots. Don't understand the leakage thing in relation to across line caps in failure as a short. Self healing would reduce that risk along with being fused. There are other types of caps that have increased protection from internal shorts. Even Type X safety caps can catch fire and are or can be described as self extinguishing. Maybe they should not be used either? Zero risk with the use of capacitors across the AC does not exist. Tweaker
Edits: 08/12/16
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- RE: Not Safe - Tweaker456 16:38:30 08/12/16 (6)
- RE: Not Safe - jea48 07:22:31 08/13/16 (5)
- Time limit of editing post - Tweaker456 08:29:04 08/13/16 (4)
- I have gone back and edited post after a while. - Cougar 09:36:11 08/13/16 (0)
- Really???? - jea48 09:16:54 08/13/16 (2)
- RE: Really???? - Tweaker456 10:50:12 08/13/16 (0)
- RE: Really???? - Tweaker456 10:02:28 08/13/16 (0)