> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of Sean Breheny
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 7:29 PM
>
> Thanks to all who responded.
>
> Florian got to the heart of my question: does the temp spec refer to
> capacitor case temp or ambient temp. The particular caps I was using
> are Panasonic FC series. Maybe I am blind but I couldn't find any
> definition in that datasheet of where the temperature was to be
> measured.

I believe IEC standard 60384 defines operating temperature as ambient
temperature for capacitor specification sheets. IME, most of the major
component manufactures follow IEC standards for definitions of parameters.

Paul

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