After discovering that the capacitors in a "vehicle performance enhancer" were fake (real caps, just dry with no electrolyte) it was suggested that I could add some electrolyte to see what happened.
I'm not sure what the official recipe is, but some early electrolytes were based on ethylene glycol and boric acid. I made some up and then dunked the capacitor in it...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xsg8lpP75s
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I'm not sure what the official recipe is, but some early electrolytes were based on ethylene glycol and boric acid. I made some up and then dunked the capacitor in it...
Here's a link to Andreas Spiess's component tester video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xsg8lpP75s
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
If you had just looked up why antifreeze is poisonous to cats, it's because they find its sweet taste attractive but it destroys the kidneys been extremely lethal. So people please be careful disposing of ethylene glycol antifreeze where there are animals , but once again Big Clive takes a taste test in the name of science so we don't have to. (Wow this just got recommend after 3 years YT algo works in mysterious ways)
Worked for a company out if Taiwan that manufactured motherboards in the 90s … eventually we setup a plant on mainland China in the free zone near HK …
We found that a manager was swapping out good parts for defective ones – not enough to 'break' the board, but which caused failures over time … e.g. we used keyboard fuses on DIN connectors – they look like resistors painted light green… turns out he made a penny a shot by swapping then out for fake ones and selling the real ones.
We realized it when kybd bios started popping … old 5pin DIN keyboards didn't like being pulled out hot…
For reference, we made an average of 150K boards a month …
Didn't they put glyco in Bulgarian wine? A few years back ?
please give me a link where I can buy the electrolyte that you are using, sir
Antifreeze is sweet. That’s why you keep it away from away from pets/animals. Because it’s sweet, they are inclined to drink it, killing them.
You never tasted ethylene glycol? Didn't you drink Austrian Vine in the early 1980's? 🤭🤣
Sweet tast end Fairly poisonous thats not smard bro realy never do that again pleas i work with that shitt end its realy not good bud it tast like a soort of sweet fake suiker so no 1 try-out pleas
How can you make diy electrolytes to a capacitor? What is the materials needed to make one?
"It's just sort of considered toxic…..I've never actually tasted it……Let's taste it!"
I absolutely loved that progression!
i have that tester love it