Hi Indeed there is both a minimum and a maximum working voltage for a properly derated electrolytic capacitor. We found that out in the middle of a design review when the customer’s team brought it up … (much to our surprise).
Bob > On Feb 25, 2019, at 1:48 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > -------- > In message > <CADHrwpcdmyeguXoM69D2byW=DfKwMfi7_t-P=qYst7T7OO=e...@mail.gmail.com>, Dana > Whitlow writes: > >> This would seem to imply that purposely overrating a 'lyt is pretty >> pointless. >> >> Any comments on this notion? > > I've always wondered that myself, and found very little documentation or > wisdom available. > > As I understand it, even very brief voltage spikes must be kept under the > rated voltage, so overrating would buy some transient durability, but > other than that... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
