Forget it...
He has 50V capacitors now.
With his 50V capacitors he will now survive 357VAC over voltage to his transformer.
Which is nice...
He might survive wearing a tin hat
but would the caps ?
The mind boggles how to make mountain out of a mole hill the OP stated the output voltage under the normal running conditions at 35V even in the unlikely event that it was measured at supply -6% the worst case would be supply +10 to get 40.9V well inside the the absolute maximum rating of the capacitor.
While I would have used 50Vdevices because they are common if I had 40V devices on hand I would have used them also. I and I would have done the trivial thing of measuring the mains voltage at which the output voltage was measured which could well have been 240V and saved 5 pages of speculation.
While I would have used 50Vdevices because they are common if I had 40V devices on hand I would have used them also. I and I would have done the trivial thing of measuring the mains voltage at which the output voltage was measured which could well have been 240V and saved 5 pages of speculation.
hey, there's always something to learn
regarding cap lifetime
mentioned to might being shortened by the possible small over voltage
since he already have them, the weird thing is, his caps would actually last much shorter if put back on the shelf
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