Re: MMC cap bank

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/4/03 4:54:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:


>One has to be careful since it may
>burn one's house down if they flame out when your not there and there is a
>big electrical hazard and all that.  But that test would pretty well define
>the lifetime.  It is interesting to note that at first they will just
>self-heal.  But eventually, they will obviously go "bad"


Actually, it would take dozens (or hundreds) of such tests with identical 
MMC configuration to come up with a useable "mortality table" to determine 
a "well-defined" lifespan. Statistics 101: "A single observation 
establishes almost nothing. As a best guess, you can say that the 
observation is probably between the 20th and 80th percentile."

Matt D.