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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Confused by capacitors | Posted by: Macdrone on 2016-04-15 10:29:51
its fine as far as i know. no issues with any that ive used.
| Posted by: bigmessowires on 2016-04-15 12:47:24
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
| Posted by: Guybrush3pwood on 2016-04-15 12:51:14
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.
| Posted by: Floofies on 2016-04-15 15:32:45
Tantalum are polarized, unlike ceramics. Just saying that so you don't get confused and install one backwards (bad idea).
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