Re: don't buy

Jeff L wrote:

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personnaly ive only had them explode when ive put them in backwards,
... not something I do very often,
although ive read quite a few people mention it here.

Experienced a couple that blew up after being put in frontwards.
(Cheap orange bead types; I suspect they were incorrectly marked.)


More likely internally shorted with a tantalum whisker, which caused an
internal fire.

They also fail from cumulative damage, especially from high di/dt, often
caused from putting them on fast rising supply rails.



--Damon

Isn't that one of the reason's they are populer ? low ESR ?



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