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6K views 39 replies 12 participants last post by  Treeman 
I (pontentially) disagree that there is "no harm no foul". Not by sience but out of experience:

I accidently had several times in my electronic work used a too low voltage capacitor that just blew up in my face (boooom) after a few minutes. Now it could have been just coincidence that the low voltage rating had nothing to do with it. But I don't want to see that happening again.

Also as another precaution, I reccently experimented with the new transformer less 110 to 24 Volt power converters as used in halogen lighting, and after a few moments a capacitor in the rectifing electronic that I had connected to the 24V side of the power converter blew up. This begs the question are the capacitors also freqency rated? And if so what impact that it have when we use DCC output with frequency regulated voltage?
 
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