It didn't smoke, lock up, freeze, or experience flux -
capacitor failure.
Determined root cause and developed a countermeasure for Power Factor Correction
Capacitor failures on the Vestas V80 wind turbine, using data acquisition tools, analysis of failed capacitors, and quality improvement tools.
Determined root cause and developed a countermeasure for Harmonic Filter
Capacitor failures on the Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbine, using data acquisition tools, analysis of failed capacitors, and quality improvement tools.
Not exact matches
The group concluded that nondestructive methods should be developed to detect cracks in
capacitors before they evolve into electrically conducting pathways and cause
failures.
A study of Food and Drug Administration data for several million pacemakers and defibrillators implanted in 1990 - 2002 found that about one in 150 failed, about one quarter of these
failures were battery /
capacitor abnormalities, and 61 people died due to device malfunctions.
Its wide band gap makes it a good insulator and protects the PEI film from dielectric breakdown at high temperatures, the reason for
failure in other polymer
capacitors.