If you search through an electrical engineering textbook, you probably aren’t going to find the phrase “gimmick capacitor” but every old ham radio operator knows about them. They come in handy when ...

Supercapacitors are a special type of electrochemical energy storage device noted for their ability to deliver sudden bursts ...

Vintage electronics and capacitor replacements tend to go hand-in-hand. Why? Because electrolytic capacitors just don’t last, not the way most other components do, anyway. The metal terminal ring and ...

One of the most common parts to fail on a single-phase HVAC system is a run capacitor, so much so that we sometimes refer to junior techs as “capacitor changers.” While capacitors may be easy to ...

Within Yageo, tantalum capacitors account for roughly 23% of revenue, making it the company’s second-largest product line ...

The project was led by the Institute of Metal Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The team said the one-second ...

Würth Elektronik expands its portfolio of components for the mains input: The new series of WCAP-FTY2 film capacitors ...

When Ceramic Capacitors Go Bad – Aging. Capacitor Aging applies to all Class 2 ceramic capacitors as they are built of ferroelectric materials. C0G types (Class 1) do not exhibit this aging effect, ...

TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD. has commercialized the new "HVX (-J)" and "HTX (-J)" series of conductive polymer hybrid aluminum electrolytic capacitors (hereinafter referred to as "hybrid capacitors") by ...

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