I dont like axial Electrolyics...

[Krumlink]

Does anybody love axial electrolyic capacitors? No. They arent vented and they are much larger and pretty useless in my case. I Never use them and they just take up space in my drawers. So I make them explode, by wiring them up backwards up to a 20VDC power supply

I explode caps between the voltages of 6.3V-20V and they all explode into a huge amount of smoke (electrolyic fluid) and a wierd string looking thingy too

 

[Torben]

Does anybody love axial electrolyic capacitors? No. They arent vented and they are much larger and pretty useless in my case. I Never use them and they just take up space in my drawers. So I make them explode, by wiring them up backwards up to a 20VDC power supply

I explode caps between the voltages of 6.3V-20V and they all explode into a huge amount of smoke (electrolyic fluid) and a wierd string looking thingy too

Dude, that's just wrong.

I'm going to have to try it now, of course.


Torben

 

[mneary]

I see you got a better camera. Now if you could just rotate it 90 degrees.....

 

[Krumlink]

Just rotate the picture in the viewer 90 degrees. I dont know why it formats it like that.

 

[kchriste]

I explode caps between the voltages of 6.3V-20V and they all explode into a huge amount of smoke (electrolyic fluid) and a wierd string looking thingy too

Avoid breathing the vapors. Who knows what toxins you are inhaling. Especially if the caps are very old ones.

 

[Krumlink]

Lol UHOH!

I had a fan that would inject air into it after popping it.

 

[Gaston]

i don't like the axial caps either. they take up too much space on the board. i can say one good thing about them though, they don't have as much stress on the leads and the radials ( the larger ones). i always shoot some silcone sealent under the big radials to glue them to the board to releive the stress on the leads

 

[mneary]

It appears that you really do like axial electrolytics... just not as capacitors.

 

[killivolt]

Ok, I got an idea for a electronic gun. (10v 1uf electrolytic cap) should fit nicely into a straw. Which will be used as a gun barrel then put in a air soft bb point in the direction of the intended target ? supply timing all the rest is a matter of choice. These are common most supply boards.

Yes, no maybe so ?

 

[Krumlink]

No, too inefficent, just by TEH CANNON!

 

[killivolt]

Maybe the day that my boss hooked up an electrolytic backward and it sounded like a 22g going off. If I recall it blew the top of almost like a firecracker ? I really thought it would be able to blast an air soft bb.

 

[xl5]

Krumlink: please wear a filter mask when blowing up unwanted caps.

The fumes and particles emitted are said to cause fit's of madness. "Hopefully you are aware of this"

 

[electronic spark]

Is that why you're green krumlink, from all the toxins?

 

[Krumlink]

lol nope its our logo for our team www.494martians.com

 

[Dr.EM]

I managed to go years without ever having done this. Only recently did I do it by installing a cap backward by mistake, sure suprised me when it popped (took a few moments).

 

[Hero999]

I've done it before.

I work for a company that does does work for the MoD and axil lead electrolytics are often preferred because (as Gaston said), they don't put as much stress on the leads.

I've got some 4700:mu:F 25V mill-spec capacitors and they're not to big and are vented. There's a score around the middle of the can which will blow before the rubber end cap so there are no safety concerns. They roughly the same size as some 16V 10000:mu:F 105°C radial electronics I have, so size isn't a problem either.