Re: Any Geekgroup MMC failures out there??

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Even if you haven't had any failures, it would be good
to know if the cap values are declining due to self
healing. I have a MMC I built using Seacor caps, and
it seemed to lose a fair amount of capacitance over
several years of abuse. I'd be interested to know if
the Geek's caps hold up better.

thanks
Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: Terry Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > I was just wonder if anyone had any failures of Geek
 > group caps for "no
 > good reason"?  I have not heard of any problems, but
 > it seems like a good
 > time to ping the users out there to see if any
 > problems have been
 > noted.  Sort of just checking to see if there are
 > any holes or unknown
 > problems we need to check into.  Of course, if one
 > does not follow the tips
 > or runs them out of what is recommended, that is
 > your problem ;-))  But if
 > you think you did everything right and they blew, I
 > would like to hear
 > about it to see if any common trends or problems are
 > out there we don't
 > know about that need fixing
 >
 > Perhaps additions to the "tips" too.
 >
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >          Terry
 >