Failing to complete maintenance on certain A/C unit parts can lead to breaks during high-strain heat events like this and ...

Researchers have designed a new switched-capacitor-based multilevel inverter topology with nine switches. They have tested it in simulations and in hardware-in-the-loop tests. Efficiency reached up to ...

When we remove the enclosure of modern electronics, we see a lot of little silvery cylinders wrapped with heat shrink plastic. These aluminum electrolytic capacitors are common residents on circuit… ...

One of the most common parts to fail on a single-phase HVAC system is a run capacitor, so much so that we sometimes refer to junior techs as “capacitor changers.” While capacitors may be easy to ...

Figure 3. Meanwell power supply with multiple types of capacitors. In the picture shown above, the reservoir capacitor is shown in the upper left.

If you do have one of these mini PCs, you can check if yours is affected by reading the serial number on the white label on the underside. If the third to fifth numbers are between 386 and 526, or ...

This variable capacitor comes directly from a piece of 1.5 mm thick aluminum sheet. Instead of fancy CNC machines, power tools, or even a pair of tin snips, [Jezan] ...

C6 is the snubber capacitor for the diode; parts rated to withstand DC 250V to DC 630V are needed and these can have X7R temperature characteristic. For C7, the snubber capacitor of the FET, a higher ...

A simple method allows measurement of a capacitor’s Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR). Farzin Asadi, Nurettin Abut. Capacitors are classified according to their dielectric’s type.

As an example, let's use a capacitor made by Murata, a 47 µF 1210-size X5R ceramic capacitor: GRM32ER60J476ME20.Murata has several simulation models available for their ceramic capacitors: simple and ...