[sdiy] dangerous high temperature electrolytics ??

[James Patchell]

I don't think oil was ever used in electrolytics.  I suspect however, that 
is what your friend was thinking of....While I am not sure what exactly is 
inside of an electrolytic, I would bet that it is pretty benign....just to 
be on the safe side, don't connect them in backwards.... :-)

And yes, they did at one time use PCB in oil filled capacitors...that I am 
pretty sure about....just be careful of those 1uF 10,000 volt caps. :-)

-Jim

At 09:18 AM 7/20/2004 +0200, JH. wrote:
>Thanks to all who replied!
>I don't know if this is about PCB or something else, though.
>PCB was used in transformers, and yes, abandoned a long time
>ago. So this was also used in oil capacitors? Reasonable.
>But are you sure this was used in electrolytics? What is oil
>doing in electrolytics?
>
>JH.

         -Jim
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