Electrolytic caps don't 'age' well regardless of use. Heat exacerbates the
problem, but what happens is the electrolyte in them crystallizes over time.
They don't hold charge as a capacitor very well once that has taken place...
hence the predisposition to let all the 'functionality preserving' smoke
out.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Beals <bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:53 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] "Forming" the capacitors in OM flashes?
But I think that everyone will agree that if you don't exercise electrolytic
capacitors [e.g. equipment sits in storage], that they will eventually go
bad
and possibly "blow up" [in the "let the magic smoke out" sense -- power
supply
caps used to like to do this] when you do try to use them.
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