Polar / Bi-Polar Caps

[TVRepairNoobie]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the stupid question in advance.

Will there there be firework if a polar cap was replaced by a bi-polar cap?

Thank you for your input.

[R_J]

Re: Polar / Bi-Polar Caps

Yes it should be o.k. I did some checking and I thought it might not work but it should be fine.

[stj]

Re: Polar / Bi-Polar Caps

it shouldnt, the bad shit would be if you used a regular lytic to replace a bipolar.

[TVRepairNoobie]

Re: Polar / Bi-Polar Caps

I’d accidently order (25v 47uf bi-polar) from Digikey, instead of polar, which was what was on the board off of Elo ET15522L touch screen monitor.

[budm]

Re: Polar / Bi-Polar Caps

it shouldnt, the bad shit would be if you used a regular lytic to replace a bipolar.

+1
Just look at it this way, lets say you have 1uf Electrolytics cap, you can put in 1uF Metal film which is non-polar cap and it will work but the size of the MF cap will be so much bigger.

[tom66]

Re: Polar / Bi-Polar Caps

It should be OK, but beware that most bipolar caps do not have low ESR, so may not always be suitable in place of polar capacitors.

[TVRepairNoobie]

Re: Polar / Bi-Polar Caps

Gentlemen, thank you much for your replies.