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Abstract
A fair evaluation of an electrolytic capacitor time to failure is important for the design and development of electronic devices. In practice, it is required to consider variable operating conditions, for example, weather temperature fluctuations or load variations. Based on the principle of Miner’s fatigue accumulation and reasonable approximations, the general formulas are derived that take into account weather temperature changes. The outdoor air temperature was modeled by the sum of components like averaged seasonal changes, averaged daily temperature changes and random temperature fluctuations. An Easy-to-use analytical formulas for the electrolytic capacitor life time estimation were obtained, in which the contribution of each individual temperature phenomenon can be evaluated. The impact of these components on the non-linear estimation formula by the Miner's principle has been clarified for some example climatic regions. Also, the capacitor life time estimation formula under particularly scheduled variable load was derived for example. The resulting formulas are useful for engineering calculations of the reliability of electronic devices exposed to weather temperature changes.
Highlights
Electrolytic capacitors are widely used in a variety of electronics application as indispensable energy temporary storages, but they are the most critical components in terms of limited service time [1,2,3,4]
An electrolytic capacitor is a complex electrochemical device whose reliability is influenced by various factors such as voltage, current, frequency, and environment: temperature, humidity, etc
In the current work electrolytic capacitor life time evaluation formulas have been proposed, which take into account seasonal and daily temperature changes
Summary
Electrolytic capacitors are widely used in a variety of electronics application as indispensable energy temporary storages, but they are the most critical components in terms of limited service time [1,2,3,4]. In some methods like in [11, 12] variable external conditions were often modeled with time intervals Δt , during which affecting degradation factors are considered to be constant. With this assumption one can get from Eq (2) the Eq (3):. In the current work electrolytic capacitor life time evaluation formulas have been proposed, which take into account seasonal and daily temperature changes. The capacitor life time estimation formula under scheduled variable load was derived
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