How hot do caps get?
Bees wax melts at about 63C, discolours (does that change its composition/properties?) and catches fire at 204C.
Bees wax melts at about 63C, discolours (does that change its composition/properties?) and catches fire at 204C.
As long as the cap doesn't get to hot, you would have the nice aroma of waxed wood, a bit like the smell of the old Gentlemen's clubs...So all you need is a snifter of Brandy, a good cigar and a fire extinguisher🙂
This is stolen from Wiki... 😀
Beeswax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Either way if the bees are Greek and you gently ask them, they can do an 85C melting point wax just for you. 😛
Lets say that my personal admiration for other individuals starts when they share knowledge which comes for their very own experiences.
Or you just post a link in your reply when sharing an information that is not originally yours.
Or you just post a link in your reply when sharing an information that is not originally yours.
And how many off us measure the melting point of beeswax, isn't that the whole point of Wiki to share knowledge.
Anyway here's one of the culprits making a quick getaway after sneakily depositing some low melting point (UK) beeswax.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/england78/14398423175/
Anyway here's one of the culprits making a quick getaway after sneakily depositing some low melting point (UK) beeswax.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/england78/14398423175/
Exactly how much of your knowledge is truly yours derived only from your research rather than having it learned from books, at school/uni or other sources?
Going with your standards all of us here would have to converse almost completely in the form of links or properly attributed quotes only.
It simply makes no sense when it comes to stupid things like melting points, conductivity etc of different materials.
The chap doing the wax thing is possibly bypassing secondary effects caused by the materials used in conventional capacitor makeup, ie. the casing used interacting in some way, unclear at the moment, with its behaviour as an ideal capacitor. From my experience, any audio device strongly dependent on electros in the audio processing area has very long warmup, or stabilising periods to achieve decent sound, possibly because the materials of the capacitor structure have to reach an equibrium in their interaction - the answer may be that the wax treatment eliminates that phase to a large degree, it behaves closer to an ideal capacitor from cold.
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In your dreams.
Striptease revisited : www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/113057-etf07-brief-summary.html#post1369073
Therefore before Google times, you did not have much to contribute in a live conversation.
Good to know, Thanks.
So one delusional Audiophile idea can better all the research that capacitor companies put into capacitor design, I think not. To be blunt its shear stupidity with no scientific backing, no actual scope measurement's of the things in circuits, no thermal profiling done, never mind the chance of loosing tension on the windings.
Funny I don't hear much about Cap warm up in other areas of electronics I happen to dabble in, where instant starting could be quite critical. Any figures on cap warm up effects?
You've got that the wrong way 'round if any kind of logic applies to your grievance with my post.
It would be impossible to have a live conversation with you, either now or before google if you were to stick to your insistence on proper attribution of even the most stupid facts which you did not derive from your own research.
But I'm sure you are not at all hypocritical and before google and smart phones when you went to the pub for a chat with your mates you got there in a small van holding your library so you could stick to your principles at all times.
Probably because electrolytics would never be used in those areas where great precision is required - after all, we are talking about the worst of the worst type of capacitor, in virtually every measurable parameter.
Scope, or any other type of measuring of anything is pretty useless, since there no agreement about what "better sound" measures like - since the component has been quite severely fiddled with physically there's bound to be changes there are measurable - but which ones are relevant to the perceived sound?
Scope, or any other type of measuring of anything is pretty useless, since there no agreement about what "better sound" measures like - since the component has been quite severely fiddled with physically there's bound to be changes there are measurable - but which ones are relevant to the perceived sound?
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