More about Capacitors (67)

1-12-2014 | What’s the first thing you check when a piece of electronics stops working? I bet it’s the power supply voltages and if you are repairing a...

1-11-2014 | Even old hands at electronics may have a moment of discovery when they stumble on feedthrough capacitors. Originally from the Bob Pease & Ra...

10-12-2013 | TDK Corporation has expanded its portfolio of automotive-grade multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) with new mid-voltage types featuring C...

19-01-2013 | Ever heard of 1GΩ resistors? The 555 timer here has a duration time of about 270s; by using a high resistance value of 1GΩ, no electrolytic...

1-10-2010 | Here at Elektor, for more than 20 years we’ve held the opinion that electrolytic capacitors have the worst properties for audio signal paths...

1-02-2010 | The team here in the Elektor lab are a good mix of young engineers and some more experienced ‘veterans’. Ton Giesberts has been with Elektor...

1-11-2006 | Repairing the connection between two cells in a battery pack actually requires specialised welding equipment. Alas, that kind of gear is exp...

1-05-2006 | Lots of circuit variations exist on this theme. We would like to add one more, however, that’s not easily beaten for simplicity and reliabil...

1-05-2006 | Large power supply reservoir capacitors have always been expensive and certainly in this category it is definitely worth the effort to try t...

1-09-2005 | The two most important properties of a capacitor are its capacitance and its internal resistance (ESR). You need to know both values in orde...