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this thing look burned to you? (lemmy.ml)
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never had one of these, that's a capacitor, right? also don't know what capacitance this is, tried searching but came up short

edit: OK, since it's 1000V I guess this isn't electronics, askelectrics doesn't exist yet?

edit 2: top view

edit 3: the whole mess

(dogdammit lemmy, can't you tell me what image size isn't too large, I hafta guess?!)

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[–] adb@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Nothing looks burnt here, just heat marks, which would be totally expected after a few decades if the appliance heats a bit during normal use.

Capacitor like these rarely fail for no reason and if it was subject to over voltage you’d probably have a lot of other things fried, they’d be some of the last things I’d check.