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Do film capacitors go bad?

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Polyester film capacitors are generally quite reliable unless repeatedly pushed to their dielectric breakdown threshold, which should not ordinarily happen in normal use (you would typically expect that to happen only with large surges or lightning strikes) provided they were properly spec'd to begin with.

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