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Confused by capacitors

bigmessowires

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I'm not an expert, but I think ceramics will be fine here. Ceramics, electrolytics, and tantalums have slightly different properties that can be important if you're designing a switching circuit of some kind, like you might find inside a power supply or as part of a voltage regulator. But that's not what you're using these for, right? Also electrolytics are polarized, but ceramics can be connected either way. And some larger capacitance values can't really be achieved with ceramics. 

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/43161/can-i-replace-all-electrolytic-capacitors-with-ceramic-ones

 

Guybrush3pwood

Well-known member
I'm not an expert, but I think ceramics will be fine here. Ceramics, electrolytics, and tantalums have slightly different properties that can be important if you're designing a switching circuit of some kind, like you might find inside a power supply or as part of a voltage regulator. But that's not what you're using these for, right? Also electrolytics are polarized, but ceramics can be connected either way. And some larger capacitance values can't really be achieved with ceramics. 

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/43161/can-i-replace-all-electrolytic-capacitors-with-ceramic-ones
Right, just using them on mainboards to replace old caps before they start leaking. 

 

Floofies

Maker of Logos
Tantalum are polarized, unlike ceramics. Just saying that so you don't get confused and install one backwards (bad idea).

 
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