Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
07-01-2022, 08:16 AM
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Replies: 9
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Re: 3300µF 450V caps...
how many µF is needed to not cause damage and make a difference :D ?
I think a 3.3mF could cause significant damage... granted you have to get unlucky in one direction, most of the cap is...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-30-2022, 05:27 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 260
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-30-2022, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 260
Re: flourescent ballast resistance
The F15T8 mag ballast I'm pretty sure can be used for PL13, though I have a mag ballast PL13 lamp somewhere...
Also have a PL13 lamp with electronic ballast which I like more because it starts...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
06-30-2022, 06:12 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 182
Re: 3300µF 450V caps...
They do have some heft per unit but not really that much, seen bigger.
Speaking of weight, technically they have a significant amount of aluminum in them, though the electrolyte probably contributes...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
06-28-2022, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 182
3300µF 450V caps...
Okay...
I scored a "small" pile of 3.3mF 450VDC(525V surge) 85°C electrolytic capacitors, looks like they are "BC" branded capacitors, looks like Vishay bought them. Now...what can I do with...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-28-2022, 06:12 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 244
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-28-2022, 05:59 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 260
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
06-27-2022, 04:11 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 135
Re: Grr... stupid DPAKs.
hmm... Tried to use my hot air gun on another (scrap) board with a dpak, came right off with no fuss.
I don't think I'll see the same on the motherboard I want to take the mosfet off of (without...
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
06-27-2022, 10:28 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 135
Re: Grr... stupid DPAKs.
Blah, and of course the source pin has a huge pad with PTVs and a through hole capacitor right next to it... Incidentally that capacitor is a solid polymer electrolytic.
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
06-27-2022, 01:15 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 135
Grr... stupid DPAKs.
Grr... stupid DPAKs.
Guess what I'm trying to do with them.
Tried a 100W gun... no dice in getting it to budge
45W pencil with a big flat tip... no dice
I'm not sure if I want to salvage...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
06-21-2022, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 209
Re: Cleaning up capacitor leakage
Don't forget try clean water too...especially since failed capacitors tend to use aqueous (i.e. water) electrolytes and water will dissolve it once more.
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Forum: Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews
06-18-2022, 08:42 PM
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Replies: 12
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Re: Short finder
Just need a voltage limited 1A CC PSU (LM317?) and you can read "ohms" (which would be milliohms) directly on your 200mV scale, if you have 20mV, even better.
Trick is not to have to send 1A...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-17-2022, 12:14 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,712
Re: Fixing a multimeter based on VC9805 schematic
Just to be thorough, you should measure the voltage at emitter and collector, if they're about the same or within a half a volt or so and both near the voltage of your battery, then it's not the...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-17-2022, 11:58 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,712
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-16-2022, 04:22 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 273
Re: resistors in parallel ?
Then you'll need a 1.5W 2k2 resistor which rounds up to 2W, and why not buy a 3k 2W resistor to begin with :D
With dissimilar resistors, probably only for last resort or if you have other values to...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-16-2022, 09:02 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,712
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-15-2022, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,712
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-14-2022, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 273
Re: resistors in parallel ?
Do the math.
BTW, should always do the math. You can even do funny things with nonmatching resistors but yeah it gets complicated when they don't match as the power dissipated will be different...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-13-2022, 09:15 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 273
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
06-12-2022, 10:34 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 261
Re: Identifying capacitor type (Laserdisc PSU)
caps that look like that are usually polystyrene. If there are that many of them, they probably chose cheapest and other plastic caps will work just fine...
...though they usually don't fail...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
06-09-2022, 04:01 PM
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Replies: 883
Views: 421,344
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-08-2022, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,712
Re: Fixing a multimeter based on VC9805 schematic
Note that when measuring IN HI/IN LO pins, you need to use a meter with 1GΩ input impedance, else you will get significant error in the reading. If you only have a 10MΩ input impedance DMM it's...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-07-2022, 07:55 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 333
Re: Ohms Law question - kind of ...
Indeed 0.16Ω is declared to be the minimum resistance of the load for one cell that's printed but couldn't read because the label needs to be rotated a bit...
However if 2 cells are in series,...
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
06-07-2022, 10:11 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,712
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