Hornby APT (2020 tooling)

[25kV]

1 minute ago, ColinB said:

Oh I thought they were on the lighting. The class 66 did have a batch of capacitors that went short circuit but they were made at least 8 years ago, although I did read of a guy on the Hornby site having the same issue with a class 66. Normally it is tantalums that are the ones that catch fire, why I never worked out. I used to fit them on all my circuit boards as they have a higher resistance than electrolytics but they are expensive so I doubt they would be used in a model railway environment.

Yep - the lighting capacitors (in the 2020 batch) are infamous for being the scale size of giant oil barrels, while the power car capacitors are known for melting the power cars. 

[ColinB]

14 minutes ago, 25kV said:

Yep - the lighting capacitors (in the 2020 batch) are infamous for being the scale size of giant oil barrels, while the power car capacitors are known for melting the power cars. 

Great thank you for the information, that is a lot easier to check.