RE: Warning Desasterous MMC failures, Rotton caps from Mouser.

["Garry Freemyer" <Garry-at-xxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Well, I determined that the caps weren't arching to each other, but were
just blowing individually, it only looked like arch over because it would
often spatter black carbon soot all over it's neighbor. 

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Subject: Re: Warning Desasterous MMC failures, Rotton caps from Mouser.


Original poster: "Grayson B Dietrich" <electrofire-at-juno-dot-com> 

I also recently experienced arcing problems with a small 1nF MMC using PP
caps from Mouser (15 caps, three strings of 5, each string separated, can
be wired for series/parallel). This was my fault for wiring the strings
too close to each other to all be wired in series. I just bolted the
board to the lid of a small square tupperware container and filled it up
with mineral oil, so only the connection to the ends of the strings
protrude above the surface. No more arc-overs :-)
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