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Purple Haze -Tantalum Cap must Die For my Pleasure!!

Problemchild

I admit it ain't too creative but I really wanted to know if the purple flames from my accidental destruction of a Tantalum cap was a fluke.

I saw in Wikipedia that the flame test for tantalum is in deed blue so fancied a go at it and also it was an excuse to do some slow mo on my GoPro Hero 4( only 4x slow down though!).

 

Enjoy...it is Christmas after all image

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  • Nice video.

     

    We used to have them die after a lightning surge on equipment.

    One day perfectly fine, then some time later they would catch fire, and boy did they stink.

    We took to replacing them at any time we suspected lightning, and later we used the aluminum caps.

     

    Mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    Yes tantalum caps are very high quality and everything but as shown they go up big style if overvolted or reverse biased.

    I thought that the majority of the tantalum was from conflict mineral areas but in fact that accounts for only 1% of the material the majority comes from Australia. I can understand that for many applications it's just easier to replace them with normal Al Caps

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  • in reply to mcb1

    Yes tantalum caps are very high quality and everything but as shown they go up big style if overvolted or reverse biased.

    I thought that the majority of the tantalum was from conflict mineral areas but in fact that accounts for only 1% of the material the majority comes from Australia. I can understand that for many applications it's just easier to replace them with normal Al Caps

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