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Default What actually Fails inside of Paper Capacitors
On 4/27/2017 11:26 AM, analogdial wrote:
Yes they do and we are seeing the failures now. But it's been
a pretty good run for a paper dielectric cap.
Much better than the wax covered caps.

Who are you kidding? Paper caps were already failing after ten
years of service.
The Sprague "bumble bees" and Black Beauty capacitors were
already known failures by the '60s.



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