EEVblog 1455–Capacitors Produce Current During Reflow Soldering! WTF! - a podcast by David L. Jones

Electrolytic capacitors produce current when they are reflow soldered! Enough to possibly light up a high efficiency LED. What is going on? A initial investigation with experiments and measurements. https://twitter.com/GregDavill/status/1491235709071818752 00:00 – WTF? 01:42 – Practical experiment heating up an electrolytic capacitor 07:37 – Data logging 09:55 – Analysing the spreadsheet graph Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1455-capacitors-produce-current-during-reflow-soldering-wtf/

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