[Amps] Results from new PSUD... resistor b4 the B+ filter caps !

[Bill, W6WRT]

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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:31:18 +0800, Alek Petkovic <vk6apk at bigpond.com>
wrote:

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>Are you talking about exploding capacitors? We've all seen them.

REPLY:

I have seen them too, but I believe in nearly all cases they were
leaky, not shorted, and as a result overheated and exploded. Many of
the ones I have seen continued to function right up until the final
bang. 

I have never seen one that simply had a dead short.

73, Bill W6WRT