Member Blog Posts: capacitor

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  General Purpose Bench/Utility Amplifier

  Posted Jan 31, 2012 By Circuit Projects

  The design of the circuit was intended to produce a signal tracer, bench amplifier, or output amplifier of personal radios.

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  Simple Headphone Amplifier by BC549C

  Posted Jan 26, 2012 By Circuit Projects

  This headphone amplifier provides a gain of less than 10 by a single stage common emitter amplifier and then via a direct coupled emitter…

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  Circuit Diagrams for Compact Fluorescent Lamps

  Posted Jan 25, 2012 By Circuit Projects

  The circuit diagrams pertain to how compact fluorescent lamps were made to provide several benefits like longer life span and lower power…

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  The Story of James Clark Maxwell and Switched Capacitor Filters

  Posted Jan 22, 2012 By Tamara Schmitz

  Article written by Philip Golden – Principal Design Engineer at Intersil

  The impact of switched capacitor filters on integrated filter design in the…

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  How Capacitors Behave in AC Circuits

  Posted Nov 29, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  What happens when an alternating current is applied to a capacitor? Capacitors behave differently than resistors, where resistors allow a flow of…

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  Series Connections of Capacitors

  Posted Nov 28, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  Connecting capacitors in series is no more difficult than connecting resistors in series. Capacitors can be connected to each other or to other types…

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  Capacitor Types

  Posted Nov 27, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  In the market, there are several types of capacitors that have been manufactured. Although all capacitors work essentially the same way, key…

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  What’s More Inside A Capacitor

  Posted Nov 23, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  The Capacitance

  Farad (F) is the unit of capacitance which was named after the British physicist Michael Faraday. This is a measure of a…

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  Getting Familiar with Capacitors

  Posted Nov 22, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  Another passive two-terminal electrical component is the capacitor. It is formerly known as a condenser and is capable of storing energy in the form…

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  Studying the Color Codes of Capacitors

  Posted Nov 21, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  Usually marked onto the body of capacitors in the form of alphanumeric characters are the actual values of capacitance, voltage or tolerance….

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  Parallel Connections of Capacitors

  Posted Nov 21, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  One of the standard types of components in electronic circuits is capacitors, and often occurring in practical circuits are the complicated…

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  Identifying the Characteristics of Capacitors

  Posted Nov 14, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  There are different kinds of capacitors that have been manufactured, and some of them may be hard to deal with because it’s difficult to read the…

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  Capacitor Basics

  Posted Oct 19, 2011 By Andrew Carter

  A capacitor is a two-terminal device that consists of two conducting bodies separated by a nonconducting material. The material is known as an…

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