[Boatanchors] Electrolytics- How Much is Too Much

[Kurt Schmid]

Hi,

I'm using the Sencore Capacitor-Inductor Analyzer LC-75. There comes a table with this instrument. Here a link to a
short report I've published in Radiomuseum.org containing this table with some text (in German, however). The table is
in English and self-explanatory:

http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/sencore_tabelle_der_grenzwerte_fuer_zulaessige_leckstroeme_bei_elkos.html

Regards & vy 73

Kurt - DH3PJ - sigmapert

sigmapert at r-390a.eu


am Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2013 um 12:59 schrieben Sie:

> High Voltage electrolytics- how much current leakage
> at rated voltage is "too much?"

> There are old standards published 70 years ago,
> but I'm interested in your current insight.
> Say- I have an original can capacitor, 
> rated 40-40-40 at 450 volts.  
> After sitting with all three tied together and at
> 400 volts, total leakage was about 1.5. mA.

> I'm not interested in re-igniting the nasty name-calling
> over whether or not "re-forming" caps is a good 
> or bad idea- only in what level of leakage is, in your opinion,
> acceptable in order to maintain a stock part in a set.

> 73 DE Dave AB5S