Capacitor Over-Pressure Protection #electronics #electrical #technology #funny

Capacitor gave up. What is this? A capacitor? Oh, that's the top of it. Why is it missing those grooves on the top? Such big capacitors should have grooves on top that breaks open under lower pressure to prevent capacitive pressure cooker bomb. Here's a capacitor with those grooves I was talking about on top of it. If you can see that. Let's blow it up and see what happens. Anyway, you see here, first those grooves open up, releasing the pressure inside the capacitor and avoiding a much more catastrophic failure. Some bigger explosion that could break the surrounding components, too. But despite that, you see a bigger explosion afterwards because the plates of the capacitor touch each other and short the power line that causes a ton of current and power and explosions through it. Of course, that wouldn't happen if I hadn't connected it to such a high voltage. On the systems they are designed for, the voltages are not that