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A Comprehensive Guide to Capacitors

vijeth_ds — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:53:16 GMT

Capacitors play an essential role in electrical and electronic circuits, along with resistors and inductors. Their ability to store electrical charges makes them crucial for power management, noise suppression, DC voltage biasing, and signal filterin...(read more)

Researchers Introduce a New Capacitor Design That Stores 19X More Energy Than Ferroelectric Capacitors

Catwell — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:36:27 GMT

(Image Credit: Mizter_X94/pixabay) Capacitors are extremely useful components found in everyday applications. They store a battery's electrical charge and provide rapid charge/discharge capabilities. Although those are some nice-to-hav...(read more)

Capacitor Leakage Experiments

jc2048 — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:36:44 GMT

Introduction I'm having a bit of fun experimenting. With capacitor leakage. It's all a bit ad hoc and Heath Robinson-ish, and I'm probably setting a very bad example of how to go about engineering, but never mind. As long as you just...(read more)

Decoupling Capacitor Experiments

jc2048 — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 10:16:41 GMT

Introduction I haven't done much blogging recently but, enthused by all the activity going on at the moment, I thought it might be interesting to take a quick look at the use of capacitors for power decoupling of logic circuits (or, at least...(read more)

Ammeter Shunt FAQ

donblankenburg — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:41:46 GMT

DC Ammeter shunt – The term DC ammeter shunt stems from one of the early uses of the devices as a means of measuring DC currents in a circuit utilizing a simple analog milli-volt meter. Many of the terms associated with these products are direc...(read more)

Your Mission Should You Decide to Accept it: Take My Polymer Capacitor Quiz and Pass It!

rscasny — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:02:33 GMT

Mission Impossible was always a favorite TV show of mine. It was a fast paced thriller for its time (in black and white, I believe) and everyone on the IM Force did their job flawlessly, especially the gadget/electronics guy. I also liked the op...(read more)

Building a Resistor Kit - and BoM Upload

shabaz — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 03:02:31 GMT

I wanted to build a resistor kit for myself. Kits are available ready-made, but they are expensive. The lower-cost kits have a 5% tolerance but for prototype development purposes I'd rather just go for a 1% set with 100ppm temperature coefficient...(read more)

Measuring Capacitor Characteristics

shabaz — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:18:32 GMT

Introduction Background Why does ESR matter and why measure it? Differences between the BA6010 and LCR Meters Is it worth using the BA6010 for measuring Capacitors? Capacitors and Specifications Results Tantalum Results Ceramic Capaci...(read more)

Seeking Someone to Write a Tutorial on Charge Pumps Including Building Some Examples

rscasny — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 21:28:09 GMT

I am interested in sponsoring a member to write a tutorial on charge pumps. I'd like the member to: a) explain what they areb) explain how they workc) build a few variants of charge pumps. I would buy all the parts. And I would throw i...(read more)

Murata ECAS series (polymer-type aluminum electrolytic capacitor)

murata — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:45:32 GMT

IntroductionIf you take a look at the main board of an electronic device such as a personal computer, you’re likely to see some of the six types of capacitors shown below (Fig. 1). Common types of capacitors include tantalum electrolytic capacitors (...(read more)

RECOM's DC/DC Book of Knowledge

recompower — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:24:15 GMT

RECOM´s DC/DC Book of Knowledge is a detailed introduction to the various DC/DC converter topologies, feedback loops (analogue and digital), test and measurement, protection, filtering, safety, reliability, constant current drivers and DC/DC applicat...(read more)

Vishay C52T High Power 900W Resistor | Farnell Element14

anitai — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:04:26 GMT

The Vishay MCB C52T reinforced wirewound resistor is constructed with a grooved ceramic core with double spiral, Ni-CR alloy winding and unique on the market. It can handle up to 900W power with very high dissipation and has a special and vitreous co...(read more)

Top 8 Applications for Vishay 196 HVC ENYCAP™︎ - Energy Harvesting & More

anitai — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:26:51 GMT

Part of Vishay’s 2015 Super 12 line up the Hybrid Storage 196 HVC ENYCAP Capacitors are high density, high energy polarized capacitors available in 1.4V increments up to 8.4V. They boast the industry's highest energy density at 13Ws/g. The ...(read more)

Vishay 2015 Super 12 | Semiconductor & Passive Components

anitai — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:08:06 GMT

Farnell element14 is proud to launch the latest edition of Vishay Super 12 Featured Products, which highlights twelve key product families selected by the market-leading manufacturer within the 34,000+ products we stock. The range is arguably the bes...(read more)

AVX 0402 TACMICROCHIP®︎ -WORLD’S SMALLEST TANTALUM CAPACITOR

anitai — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:58:02 GMT

Giving design engineers a new option for reducing the size of portable electronic devices, AVX recently developed the industry’s first 0402 tantalum chip capacitor. Designated the 0402 TACMicrochip Series, the capacitors offer the highest volumetric...(read more)