I have an 'extended life' i.e. 7000 working hours 250V 330uF electrolytic snap-in capacitor.
It is used in a simple circuit to provide to provide a DC voltage from an input voltage of 100VAC to power 90VDC motors.
Why would the top of the capacitor start getting puffy and hollow, comparable to the touch of a membrane switch, after only 2 years of operation? I'm suspecting that occasional regenerative voltages may be causing the voltage to exceed the cap's paramters.
Mike