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RE: Capacitor life?



Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au> 

 > Original poster: "Philip Brinkman" <peeceebee-at-mindspring-dot-com>
 >
 > Has this question been answered? How long do the MMC
 > capacitors last? Is it
 > 30 minutes?
 > I was going to buy some from Geekgroup, but not if they only
 > last that long!
 > Thanks, Phil Brinkman

If designed well and protected with a safety gap, they should last thousands
of hours.
This is a good design tool:
http://home.datacomm.ch/k.schraner/MMCcalc2xls.zip

Tom L.