What is odd and i have never had this happen with a capacitor is the case seems to float to about half of the input voltage and both caps do it, the ones i have are made by NWL Capacitor, they are both 160mfd at 2.5kv dc, they hold 200 volts but the case does not make sense, the one with out the dented side does the same thing. with an ESR meter there is no connection to the case but that's at 2 volts. Maybe what i am seeing is a capacitive coupling to the case and not a real fault
I have not used them in about 10 years so i dont remember if they did that before, I got them as unused surplus back in 2005
I will be treating them as being a live case and isolate it. I too have always treated beasties like these as having a potentially live case, i think i am going to put plexiglass around these.
Thank you for the link to the resistors, i know i have stuff like that around but i need to find them now, mine i think are made by the same company, i had gotten them for use on a tank for a tesla coil as it uses 20 polypropylene caps
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