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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gunz4me" data-source="post: 4914511" data-attributes="member: 596464">For anyone who thinks that audio caps can't explode, they are sadly mistaken.  One of the local install shops has aftermath photos of a one farad cap that exploded when shorted out.  Basically, they went behind a guy's self-install and self-installer hadn't secured the power wire properly resulting in a direct short across the caps positive and negative inputs.  That produced a nice pretty black arc in the dude's trunk!  The installer was so thankful that the cap exploded away from his face instead of towards it.  Had it gone the other way, he would be blind or dead!I am just pointing this out because I read an article that recommended caps stating they were safe and rarely, if ever, exploded.  After all, what happens to the caps in an amp or computer when they smoke?  They sometimes violently blow.</blockquote>

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