Is this electrolyte leakage? - Page 2

 

DaveC wrote:


It'll leak from the bottom first onto the PCB and the top will eventually bulge
or split.

So, no.

Graham
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If it's pushed the crimp open the substrate certainly had to expand.
Does this cause a significant problem? Depends on if the cap has a
high ESR.

That 'red stuff' may or may not have originated from inside.Having
torn apart many electrolytics and blowing them up by accident and on
purpose I can't remember one spewing bright red stuff.

 

Meat Plow wrote:


Me neither. It's usually yellow or yucky off-white.

Graham

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 Eeyore wrote:

Ditto. IMO, it's red marker from the factory.

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