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In the Thread: What is the buzz: the V-Caps?

Post Subject: What does one give a V-Cap customer who had everything?Posted by Steradian on: 3/11/2010

Chris VenHaus comments, "The original production TFTF's are still fine at 600V, including the older, larger values over 0.47 uF (that were subsequently de-rated to 300V for NEW production). It was only when the NEW DuPont Teflon was supplied, that we felt we needed to derate the caps accordingly. Whether it was a tooling or reformulation at DuPont, we don't know, but something changed and newer film from our supplier wasn't making our conservative ratings any more."

http://www.laventure.net/tourist/caps.htm

This is speculation and only one possibility, but I wonder if the reason for the new CuTF series copper foil and teflon caps is because this unexplained change in the teflon supplied by DuPont forced a redesign of the V-Cap. The TFTF series was said to be "neutral" without peer.

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