Mundorf M-Lytic 4 pole caps

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These caps have 4 pins paired off as input & output; the schematic has the 2 +ve pins commoned & likewise the 2 -ve pins. Can someone explain how it can be directional?

 

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These caps have 4 pins paired off as input & output; the schematic has the 2 +ve pins commoned & likewise the 2 -ve pins. Can someone explain how it can be directional?
Are you just interested in the tech behind the cap or do you think you need one of these for a project?

 

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Ive built a pair of kit mono blocks that have these in the ps. From the sparse info on the Mundorf site it logically seems that input & output are one & the same thing. Is this just a marketing ploy where the only difference making a 4 pin can to a 2 pin can is the price?

 

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Is the drawing wrong, that is don't link the positives together?

 

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4-pole connections work because they make the internal losses of the cap a virtue.

Picture the capacitor as a long pair of parallel plates instead of being rolled-up inside the can.

One pair of terminal poles puts electricity on the plates at one end, the supply.

The other pair at the other end supplies cleaner power to the load circuit.

The inductance and resitance of the plates - the distance between the two 'ends' makes this a distributed CLRC filter, which is a good thing (and a quite measureable effect - the original DNM/Aerovox 4pole caps gave some good data showing this)

If you folded this notional plate then connected the terminal pairs together directly you've lost this effect and spent the extra money for no gain.

 

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