60mm long radial electrolytic?

[japlytic]

When I was scrapping a power supply, I found a 6800uF 10V Teapo SE radial lead electrolytic capacitor (60mm long, 16mm diameter, 1993 manufacture).
A parameter/characteristic search (Chemi-Con, Nichicon, and Panasonic) revealed that the longest radial lead electrolytic capacitor is 50mm.
Have you ever seen radial lead electrolytic capacitors which are 55mm or longer?

[shovenose]

Re: 60mm long radial electrolytic?

Wow! You mean like 6cm! Huge!

[PCBONEZ]

Re: 60mm long radial electrolytic?

Yes. - Here.
Was a thread about a TV [plasma I think] with some weird custom order caps maybe 4" long.

There's also this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1-X-10000uF-400V...item4a9ff6cc36

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: 60mm long radial electrolytic?

10k uF at four hundred volts? Insane.

[Wizard]

Re: 60mm long radial electrolytic?

Yes, that was 50mm long x 12.5mm IIRC 56uF 450V

Cheers, Wizard

[stj]

Re: 60mm long radial electrolytic?

i see longer caps all the time - try looking in the power section of old tv's or industrial monitors.
they usually have 3-5 pins or a ring around the base to keep them on the pcb.

what's actually funny is that i often have to re-drill the pcb to fit the smaller modern replacements - the look on the customers face is classic sometimes.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: 60mm long radial electrolytic?

Yes, that was 50mm long x 12.5mm IIRC 56uF 450V

Cheers, Wizard

Yup, I thought it was your post but I don't remember what the device was and so couldn't find it again.
I thought they were much longer than 50mm though.
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[Wizard]

Re: 60mm long radial electrolytic?

That old multi section capacitors around 1" or greater diameter is no longer used in general TVs for last 20 years. This type of caps died out when tube/valve died out by 1970's.

Only thing I saw them were in old large computers and large power supplies, industrial applications.

Cheers, Wizard