Homemade bipolar capacitor exploded?
It's about the capacitor marked there in the Focus circuit, which has a 25V 6.8UF rating. I replaced it a while ago with two 10UF 50V electrolytic capacitors, negative to negative. After 30 minutes of watching TV, one of them blew up, and that killed my horizontal deflection. The question is, did it break one of them?
Did you want to convert the value 6,8uF by a parallel connection or series connection of the two capacitors?
In the case of series connection, you should not have connected the two capacitors to minus.
Series minus minus minus I replace so for years bipolar capacitors it has never happened
Maybe this link will help you?
https://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/106266
On one side of the capacitor lie -7v on the other side 10v it is an Elko without polarity
No! It’s a telescopic. After a rectifier, look into the supplement here not an alternating current all dc
“On the one hand, electrolytic capacitors have a high capacitance. On the other hand, they are polished and separate for AC applications.”
Is it possible that there is alternating current in your circuit?
(entities –> https://www.elektronik-kompendium.de/sites/bau/1011301.htm)
Non polarized 6,8uf 25v
It’s bipolar elkos! Mean
Bipolar capacitors have no polarity. Therefore also the name bipolar. In contrast, Elko’s “Plus” and “Minus” have connections.
No way I’ve always replaced bipolar so 2 years ago never happened in other devices