Hackaday

Measuring Capacitance Against Voltage

Ceramic capacitors are pretty much the pixie dust of the electronics world. If you sprinkle enough of them on a circuit, everything will work. These ceramic capacitors aren’t the newest and latest ...
Electronic Design

Extended Capacitance Range and Voltage Ratings for X7R MLCCS

AVX Corporation has extended the capacitance range and voltage ratings for its X7R MLCCs, resulting in a much broader product offering with several new high volumetric efficiency options. AVX ...
EDN

Let’s Talk About Capacitance and Charge

We discussed in the previous tutorials the dielectric—the insulating material that prevents the two parallel conductive plates from touching each other. An electrical current flows when a voltage is ...
Electronics Weekly

Compact MLCC has capacitance of 15nF and rated voltage of 1.25kV

Murata announces the launch and mass production of its multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) featuring a capacitance of 15nF, a rated voltage of 1.25kV, and C0G characteristics in the compact 3225M ...
Hackaday

Old School High Voltage Capacitance

What would MacGyver do if he needed a high voltage capacitor but only had some foil, tape, water, salt, a nail and a plastic jug? He would build a salt water Leyden jar, that’s what. The Leyden jar is ...
T&D

High-Voltage Circuit Breaker Eliminates Shunt Capacitance

ABB has released a new 145-kV high-voltage circuit breaker. The 145PM63-B high-voltage circuit breaker uses a new high-performance interrupter to serve 121-145 kV applications at 40-, 50-, and 63-kA ...
Electronics Weekly

AVX uses stable electrodes for good voltage capacitance ratio

Expanding its TLJ range of capacitors which are designed to offer a high capacitance versus voltage ratio based on stable MnO2 electrodes, AVX is offering a 47µF capacitor with a 10V rating in 0805 ...