Replacement capacitors exploding

@rodman99999
Thank you for the link.

@fiesta75
No apology necessary, your earlier post lead me to these two document from cornell-dubilier and caused the confusion:
http://wiki.ece.rose-hulman.edu/herniter/images/0/03/Aluminum-Electrolytic_Capacitor_Application_Gui...

NON-POLAR
If two, same-value, aluminum electrolytic capacitors are connected in series, back-to-back with the positive terminals or the negative terminals connected, the resulting single capacitor is a non-polar capacitor equal in capacitance to either of the original pair.

http://web.archive.org/web/20131110001709/http://electrochem.cwru.edu/encycl/misc/c04-appguide.pdf

NON-POLAR
If two, same-value, aluminum electrolytic capacitors are connected in series, back-to-back with the positive terminals or the negative terminals connected, the resulting single capacitor is a non-polar capacitor with half the capacitance to either of the original pair.

Thanks for the clarification.

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Cheers,

T eh

Many of us who frequent the Klipsch forum and work mostly on Klipsch often go to Parts Express for caps. Lots of non polar electrolytics out there but in general I replace them with poly caps even though they are much larger and may require two to get the right value.
What exactly did you replace the OEM caps with? Brand, type, UF+tolerance and voltage.
  I have rebuilt hundreds of Klipsch crossovers and never had your problem so I am also wondering how hard you are pushing them. I  bought a pair of KP-262's once that had melted the rectangular blue mylar caps but it took really serious abuse to get there. They still played but did not sound very good.

" rodman999995,010 posts06-10-2021 1:31am@imhififan - Half the capacitance. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/69715/can-two-electrolytic-capacitors-be-made-into-a... " With all the non-polar caps out there I have no idea why anyone would do this. Now there is value in using two caps in parallel to get to the same value as one and that is the ESR will be reduced and low ESR is a good thing.

@mahlman-  "With all the non-polar caps out there I have no idea why anyone would do this."     Same here (makes no sense)!                                                                                                                I’ve never used an electrolytic in a crossover, even when repairing a customer’s.    NOR: would recommend using anything but, at minimum, metalized mylars.    Preferably: one of the better metal films.                                                                                        "Now there is value in using two caps in parallel to get to the same value as one and that is the ESR will be reduced and low ESR is a good thing."    Absolutely/all day long!                                                                                                                                                                             That post was simply an answer to a posed question.