From bigclivedotcom.

I got this control gear, mainly for the ballast, so I wasn’t too bothered when the rest of the gear had a rough trip through the postal system.
It gives me an excuse to open a power factor correction capacitor (also used for motor applications) and see what’s inside.

The older (longer lasting!) capacitors tended to have thicker insulation and were potted in a dielectric liquid like oil or polychlorinated biphenyl (now banned).

When you see the cling-film/saran-wrap type thickness of the insulation in these modern capacitors it makes you realise why they degrade so quickly over time.

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