On 23 Apr, 17:43, "N Cook" wrote:

I can understand the other way round being a no-no but what is wrong with
using switch mode power suply type electrolytics for mains smoothing of high
voltage rails.?

for mains or hv rails?

If you want to use smpsu caps on mains there are 2 problems:
1. the lytic caps aren't bipolar
2. the caps also arent X rated (for L-N connection) nor Y rated (For L-
E connection)

If you meant using them for hv dc rails, why not?


NT