Re: Sanyo fake caps?
If you use a series resistor for reforming, it can be a little quicker, and the right value is whatever you have laying around. Seriously, pretty much any value between 1K and 100K should be OK. As PCB said, the electrolyte is not the dielectric. The electrolyte is, for low ESR parts, highly conductive, and is part of the current path for ripple current. That is why evaporating electrolyte results in the ESR increasing.
One thing that isn't visually apparent if you take an electrolytic capacitor apart is that the anode (+) foil is far from smooth. Because the aluminum oxide layer is very thin, increasing the surface area of the foil by etching "valleys" into it increases the capacitance obtainable from a given length x width of foil. The degree and desired pattern of etch varies with the intended working voltage. This reminds me of a thread I should try to find ...
If you use a series resistor for reforming, it can be a little quicker, and the right value is whatever you have laying around. Seriously, pretty much any value between 1K and 100K should be OK. As PCB said, the electrolyte is not the dielectric. The electrolyte is, for low ESR parts, highly conductive, and is part of the current path for ripple current. That is why evaporating electrolyte results in the ESR increasing.
One thing that isn't visually apparent if you take an electrolytic capacitor apart is that the anode (+) foil is far from smooth. Because the aluminum oxide layer is very thin, increasing the surface area of the foil by etching "valleys" into it increases the capacitance obtainable from a given length x width of foil. The degree and desired pattern of etch varies with the intended working voltage. This reminds me of a thread I should try to find ...
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