Re: Arctronics capacitors

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Original poster: Mark Broker <mbroker-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org> 

How is a Maxwell better than a CDE?  When a Maxwell fails, you still have a 
door stop.  Had you been using an MMC - using GE, CDE, Wima, Panasonic, etc 
- you'd e able to remove the bad cap(s) and replace with good one(s) to the 
tune of $3.00ea (or whatever your non-"Geek caps" are priced at).  And an 
MMC cap exploding is not nearly as messy as nearly any commercial pulse cap 
exploding (oil and all that delicious stuff).

I've been wondering for years whether modern commercial pulse caps utilize 
self-healing construction, so I guess this finally answers my question. :)

Regards,

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:40:29 -0700, Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

>Original poster: Kreso Bukvic <kreso.bukvic-at-kc.htnet.hr>

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>inside. Intresting thing when i tried one cap from inside it worked ok so i
>disasembled it it was black inside and full of holes like swiss chese. So my
>opinion is that maywells 37667 are better than Cornell Doublier because they
>are also self healing, more practic and so. The only problem was in my