Questions tagged [ceramic]
A kind of capacitor where ceramic material acts as a dielectric. They have less volumetric efficiency than electrolytic capacitors.
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Appreciate help in identifying this vintage IC - Fairchild HL41109 QB
Trying to find out what this one is has been a real head-scratcher. Google leads me down numerous rabbit-holes to dead ends. And I see 1 or 2 for sale on eBay, but apparently they have no idea what it ...
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Replacing ceramic capacitors with film in PSU
Some Behringer Truth B2031 came back from a friend and they're acting up. first thing I noticed was the four .1uf ceramics that are in parrellel with the bridge rectifier diodes have experienced ...
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NRF52840 chip antenna design
I am currently in the process of creating a custom PCB with a chip antenna. I have taken the schematic from the NRF9160-DK as a reference. I would use the same components, but leave out the coaxial ...
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How to visually distinguish metal film and ceramic capacitors (leaded)?
This question only involves the leaded components.
Electrolytic capacitors are each to recognize since they are usually in cylindrical cans. However, I am not sure about distinguishing the other two ...
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How can we model the piezoelectric behavior of a capacitor to mechanical and thermal transients?
I would like to model the behavior of ceramic capacitor to thermal and mechanical stress.
We are seeing power supply fluctuations during reliability test and suspecting the ceramic capacitors' role in ...
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Multiple smaller capacitors on power rail for NeoPixel / WS2812B strip
I read in the AdaFruit guide that a 500-1000uF capacitor is recommended on the power rail.
However, electrolytic capacitors in this capacitance are quite large. Depending on the length of the strip, ...
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DC bias vs AC voltage change rate on MLCC capacitors
I'm looking at the following MLCC capacitor, which is a 10uF X5R ceramic: official datasheet
I know that ceramic capacitors which aren't C0G have an important variation of their value depending con ...
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Is there a shielding difference from switching terminals of an MLCC capacitor?
For electrolytic capacitors, the capacitor has only one working polarity (or it
usually will get damaged if reversed).
For film capacitors, the outermost metal layers ("left" and "right&...
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low frequency ripple current RMS amps and temperature rise in MLCC
Manufacturers only specify this metric of 0.1, 0.5 and 1MHz.
Is there any way to calculate / estimate the temperature rise in these capacitors for much lower frequencies, in the Hz range, based on ...
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Single Letter Temperature Coefficient for Capacitors?
A certain parts supplier offers ceramic capacitors with temperature coefficients (tempcos) of single letters -- A, E, and so on -...
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Decoupling capacitors - placement close to DC output
I have a general question regarding the placing of decoupling capacitors.
Example at DC Vout of SMPS or LDO regulators. Does it really matter which capacitor out of 100nF, 1nF and 10uF is placed ...
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Snubber capacitor VAC handling by frequency of C0G?
I'm looking for a suitable snubber capacitor (220 pf) for a boost converter.
The semiconductor manufacturer recommends some ceramic capacitors for this
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Ceramic capacitors in series to increase AC voltage rating
If I put 4 of 1uFx100V cercaps in series I will virtually have one .25uFx400V capacitor.
As I know I should use balancing resistors for even distributinon of the voltage across the capacitors. ...
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