{"id":5012,"date":"2023-05-02T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/05\/02\/boom-small-electrolytics-blow-up-in-a-big-way-magic-smoke-released\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:24","slug":"boom-small-electrolytics-blow-up-in-a-big-way-magic-smoke-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/05\/02\/boom-small-electrolytics-blow-up-in-a-big-way-magic-smoke-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom!  Small Electrolytics Blow-up in a Big Way. MAGIC SMOKE RELEASED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6WUxgmMDts4?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>It doesn&#8217;t take much. Like if you put 12 volts across a little electrolytic rated at 10 volts, WATCH OUT! The tranquility of your workshop could soon be very suddenly disturbed. Even with the proper polarity, they will BLOW-UP. The MAGIC SMOKE will be EXPLOSIVELY RELEASED. BOOM! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>And speaking of capacitors, Rogier PA1ZZ sends this: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/jupitercondenser.com\/collections\/audio-capacitors&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1683095189593000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0Flti0QdvER_DjNYQYiq6C\" href=\"https:\/\/jupitercondenser.com\/collections\/audio-capacitors\" rel=\"noreferrer\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/jupitercondenser.com\/c<wbr><\/wbr>ollections\/audio-capacitors<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>But don&#8217;t blow these ones up. Some of them are 75 dollars a pop! <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much. Like if you put 12 volts across a little electrolytic rated at 10 volts, WATCH OUT! The tranquility of your workshop could soon be very suddenly disturbed. Even with the proper polarity, they will BLOW-UP. The MAGIC SMOKE will be EXPLOSIVELY RELEASED. BOOM! And speaking of capacitors, Rogier PA1ZZ sends this: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/05\/02\/boom-small-electrolytics-blow-up-in-a-big-way-magic-smoke-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boom!  Small Electrolytics Blow-up in a Big Way. MAGIC SMOKE RELEASED!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,38,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrolytic-capacitors","category-parts-suppliers","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11296,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions\/11296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}