On Monday, 15 April 2019 18:50:53 UTC+1, Roger Hayter wrote:
Rob Morley wrote:
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:26:53 +0100
(Roger Hayter) wrote:

I don't think a high voltage low loss capacitor could easliy be
damaged by another fault in that sort of circuit, but it might have
*caused* other damage.

That sort of failure is outside my limited experience - I don't think
I've ever seen an exploded high voltage plastic capacitor IRL.

They're usuallly supposed to be self-healing. Film defects vaporise a
small region of the metallisation near them.

Those didn't look like the sort with such features.


NT