[ale] need help identifying a capacitor

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 3/12/2010 10:53 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Calvin Harrigan
> <charriglists at bellsouth.net>  wrote:
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>> Why do you think that the capacitor is bad, polyester film and ceramic capacitors are pretty resilient.
>>      
> Look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardbronosky/4425791349 When
> the transistor popped it put a bunch of black soot on the capacitor. I
> wiped it off, but it left that burnt spot on there. If I'm going to
> pay for shipping on that resistor, I might as well add the capacitor.
>
> Thanks for the tolerance info.
>
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It's highly probable that there are other bad components in the circuit, 
driver resistors/transistors, bad electrolytics, etc.  Do you have a 
schematic?  Mosfets typically don't go out on their own, not under 
normal circumstances anyway, just a heads up.