Powering up a 20-year old MicroVAX II

[Bob Bradlee]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:33:48 -0600, Jim Battle wrote:

>More insidious than the much less than rated capacitance is the fact the 
>inner one is rated to 35V and the outer one is rated at 50V.  So rather 
>than just having extra ripple in your power supply, you end up with a 
>blown cap.

Most applications using a 6800mf cap are filtering 5~24v supply voltages. 
35wv will work just fine. 

My question would be .... 
Did the solder monkey who made this, get the polarity correct ?
That could assist in the generation of a small Bang !

I think that the cap pictured represents a lot of labor just to recyclea little electrolitic:-)

I expect the 2200uf came from some computer scrap we ship back for recycleing.

The other Bob