Ron,

Nailed!!! Once again my quick-and-dirty approach is exposed for what it is!
You're right, hand-held multimeter will show a continuous current rather
than an exponentially dropping one. With an appropriate series resistor
capacitor heating is eliminated. I'm just an engineer (not a QA type). Are
there standard incoming inspection tests for cap's? The problem of
mis-labeled tant caps is not at all rare. I know that most of my assemblers
do not test incoming parts. Perhaps they should. Is there a IPC or other
standard I can refer them to?

Ray

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