[sdiy] dangerous high temperature electrolytics ??

[James Patchell]

Not really too sure....my understanding of the high temp electrolytic was 
that they were constructed so they would not dry out as quickly.

The liver damage thing sounds more like he was thinking of oil filled 
capacitors that contained PCB.

But, hey I am not sure....

At 02:27 AM 7/20/2004 +0200, JH. wrote:
>I've spent some extra money to buy high temperature (105 deg C) electrolytic
>caps
>for my latest project (tube stuff, 450V caps).
>Now a co-worker told me that these high temperature caps used to be very
>harmful
>to health (liver damage etc.) one they "blow", bacause the chemicals would
>be
>way more dangerous than in ordinary electrolytics.
>
>Question: Is this true? Is this *still* true for modern capacitors? (His
>experience goes
>way back to th eearly days of electronics, so I don't know if this is still
>valid for
>today's components.) Please tell me.
>
>JH.

         -Jim
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