On 17-9-2018 2:20, Cursitor Doom wrote:
Has anyone ever had a large electrolytic cap (like in a PSU) fail,
pouring out acrid smoke that fills the room but leaves no other evidence
whatsoever of it having failed (like no staining on the PCB or even the
cap itself - and no bulges either)?




Yeah... Four 300v (2 serial/parallel) in a powersupply
for 500 volt out.
Reverse connected.
Exploded after about 10 seconds.