[TenTec] Electrolytic capacitors, leakage and reasons for why we must handle them the way we do

[MadScientist1948]

While searching for info on testing some new electrolytics, I found this exceptional site describing, in readable terminology, everything you ever wanted to know about aging, reforming, leakage etc. in electrolytic capacitors.

I’d share this with the CCA reflector as well but I am no longer welcome there since I deal only in facts and not folklore, as is common there, especially within the inner circle. Oh well, their loss…

Reading this article will make understanding the behavior of electrolytics second nature. Therefore I thought it worth sharing.

https://tadiranbatteries.de/pdf/applications/leakage-current-properties-of-modern-electrolytic-capacitors.pdf <https://tadiranbatteries.de/pdf/applications/leakage-current-properties-of-modern-electrolytic-capacitors.pdf>

73

Gary