[sdiy] How do old electrolytics go bad?

[Roy J. Tellason]

> The tubes weren't heated so there was full charge still on it at 440V or
> like that.  And I managed to hit a hand on something hot while hitting my
> other arm on the chassis.  GANK righ through the heart.  Could have killed
> me.  I hate it when people *help*.  

I would've *helped* that person to see the error of their ways...!


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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James 
M Dakin