Did I burn my capacitor?

[Hak Foo]

I'm replacing the electrolytics in my JVC JR-S301. While trying to solder the main filter caps (United Chemi-Con KMH, 18000uF/63v, but still much smaller than the original 18000/56 Elnas), I touched the iron to the top surface of one of the caps. This burnt a hole on the bottom of the cap, but it looks like there's little underneath there. Is it likely it's just the wrapping and the cap is safe? I powered it up after the swap and it didn't explode immediately, but that's presumably a zero load situation. Since it's a $10-plus-postage cap, I'm not keen on just tossing it if it's just ugly but workable.

 

[Pio1980]

No worries here, carry on.

 

[Blue Shadow]

I touched the iron to the top surface of one of the caps. This burnt a hole on the bottom of the cap,

Wow,!! That is one hot soldering iron, burning all the way through the cap with just a touch. Sure you're not using a high power laser?

What Pio said. No problems, just melted the covering. Make sure no metal was exposed that can touch something else.

 

[Binkman]

board pic of what is shown looks clean. However you are fined two cookies.

 

[Blue Shadow]

board pic of what is shown looks clean. However you are fined two cookies.

That seems fair.

 

[Binkman]

max penalty is about up to 1000 cookies. But I'd say about 95% are really good pics for the form on my screens otherwise I'd be more critical. lol.. like the worst job in the world must be selling baseball cards 'certified'. LOL

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