Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - PCBs and AC capacitors: did PCB's screw us out of reliable capacitors?
View Single Post
 
Old 08-17-2017, 04:08 PM
villagetinker's Avatar
villagetinker villagetinker is offline
Sage
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Village of Pinellas
Posts: 11,075
Thanks: 3
Thanked 8,180 Times in 2,976 Posts
Default

Back to the PCB question, I worked in the electric utility industry for over 40 years, and the transformer and capacitor manufacturers provided suitable replacement fluids for oil filled capacitors. If a recall correctly, the main advantage of the PCB fluids was fire resistance, I do not recall the fire resistance of the newer fluids. In any case if you really want oil filled caps, they are available, but there are better alternatives that have no oil. When ours failed, the repairman made a comment about ours being the FIFTH one that day, and that there must have been a bad batch.
Hope this helps.
__________________
Pennsylvania, for 60+ years, most recently, Allentown, now TV.