rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) (02/13/91)
In article <1991Feb10.185700.25810@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group) writes: >AN INTRODUCTION TO CAPACITORS > >by David Johnson, Los Banos, CA. > >(This article originally appeared in the Canadian LF/VLF newsletter >_Northern Observer_ [issue #23, mid-December 1990]. It is posted here >by permission of the author.) > >[text deleted] > >ALUMINUM ELECTROLYTICS pack a lot of capacitance into a relatively >small volume, and are cheap. They are used primarily for power-supply >filtering, low-frequency AC coupling, and DC blocking. In general >they are not suitable for other applications because they have very >sloppy tolerances,... I'm always leery of technical articles that use loaded or inflamatory words such as "sloppy" (and "wobbly" later on) to describe what is a normal and manufactured-to tolerance for an engineered part. It is the design engineer's job to apply the part properly. All capacitor manufacturers supply data sheets upon request. Rich