<div dir="ltr">In 2002 when I replaced a couple small, ancillary controllers in a nuclear plant, the engineer mentioned off-hand that they considered the life of a capacitor to be ten years, whether or not it was in service.<br>
<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">...John<div><br></div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Good data, Ron. There was a wave of nightmare hardware related to bootleg capacitors that were filled with tap water instead of triple distilled water<br></p></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>