Timeline for How to visually distinguish metal film and ceramic capacitors (leaded)?
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| Nov 8, 2022 at 2:27 | comment | added | Hearth | If you relax the visually requirement, film capacitors don't exhibit significant voltage dependence--so if you measure the capacitance with a DC bias of nearly the rated voltage, a film capacitor will have about the same as its rated capacitance, while a ceramic capacitor, if it's a high-κ one (anything bigger than a nF will almost definitely be), it will have probably less than half its rated capacitance. Though if the ceramic cap has a C0G or U2J dielectric, it will look the same as a film cap to this test. | |
| Nov 7, 2022 at 22:02 | answer | added | Tim Williams | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 7, 2022 at 21:16 | comment | added | DKNguyen | They don't look like each other. | |
| Nov 7, 2022 at 21:15 | comment | added | Justme | What research have you done so far how to distinguish between them? Have you for example googled for images of ceramic and metal film capacitors? | |
| Nov 7, 2022 at 21:07 | history | asked | FlakR | CC BY-SA 4.0 |