** Try actually reading this - ASSHOLE
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** NT is playing games - as usual.
He is using at least three level of false logic.
- That my generalisation about DC rated caps must apply to all examples.
- Since it does not comply with the secret example he alludes to, it must be false.
- That arguing from the particular to the general is not a fallacy.
FYI:
In the USA, makers have been getting away with fitting 600V DC rated film caps in 120V AC circuits for a long time - they sometimes even connect them from active to chassis in guitar amps. Such capacitors are known by guitarists as "death caps". The evil practice was discontinued about 25 year ago.
A given 600 or 1000V DC rated cap may well be series wound, impregnated with oil or just use unusually thick film and so last quite well. But the vast majority of DC rated caps last only a short time when used with a 240V supply - then typically explode violently. Failure is due to internal corona discharge across trapped air pockets inside the cap eating away the insulation.
Corona simply does not occur in wound film capacitors at 100VAC, that is why I mentioned the number.
.... Phil