Oil-filled capacitors.

[john]

Amen...very good capacitors, and very reliable.

John K5MO


At 12:49 PM 9/13/2006, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>I work at the University of Idaho. I asked our Environmental and Health
>Safety people about this question.
>
>Their response was that 1) if they aren't leaking, they are not a hazard,
>2) if they are not leaking and you wish to use them, do so, 3) if they
>ARE leaking, wrap them in a plastic bag and call us for disposal, if you
>wish.
>
>The quantity of oil in any reasonably sized capacitor is so small, they
>hardly constitute a hazard. PCBs aren't really dangerous unless they 1)
>get in the ground water, and 2) are burned, when they give off a
>dangerous gas. Yet the method of destruction is to burn them in a
>special furnace.
>
>Those pyranol filled capacitors have extremely low ESR. In fact, even
>the smallest of them are usually shipped with the connecting leads
>shorted since they can "charge themselves" to a substantial voltage
>while sitting around unused if the connectors are left unshorted.
>
>They are extremely good capacitors.
>
>I rountinely use any I can find at work in special lab power supplies
>sometimes.
>
>Ken Gordon W7EKB
>
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