Blue Shadow
Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
Thank you Binkman for your title to this new topic...maybe forum on AK.
Let's get this party started. There are many opinions on this so lets keep it on topic or this thread (or posts) will vanish just like wire discussions.
Keep on topic, avoid calling out, state your opinions and keep it clean or we will never have an Abyss in which to party.
They make a difference.
They break in.
They have varying costs.
I like to use the ones that look good. Black and Gold is nice. Wish the Silmics were prettier, brown and not quite white visually just doesn't pop.
Now if I had the testing gear, knowledge base and such of well let's pick someone that has talked about caps recently, ConradH, I would be able to add more. An understanding the specs is something many (should I say most) here do not have in the toolbox and selecting, purchasing (costs) and installation are something that many do. Be nice to have a forum to discuss it...well at least have a knowledge base bump by those in the know.
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I have been contacted about this thread and there is interest in presenting what capacitors are, materials used and other information. I read the definition and it was too complicated to put out there as the first indication of what a capacitor is so I will put a definition here: A capacitor is a passive electrical device that is used to store an electrical charge. In a simple form it consists of two conducts separated by an insulator. This is information from a web search of capacitor definition. I read a few and put something down.
There was also discussion of citing your information. When you have something technical to present, citing helps as we can go to that location and glean more information. Conrad has done that in his post on page 2 about the early days of capacitance measurement.
I would like to point out that Wiki has a good run down on caps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor
Although this thread is a general location for discussions about caps, we are probably going to give it an audio slant and not necessarily an automotive energy recovery slant. But the wiki article does cover many ideas we can expand on and the math involved can probably be ignored for almost all the discussions. I mean who still knows differential equations and integrals anymore? Like we ever really learned it.
Let's get this party started. There are many opinions on this so lets keep it on topic or this thread (or posts) will vanish just like wire discussions.
Keep on topic, avoid calling out, state your opinions and keep it clean or we will never have an Abyss in which to party.
They make a difference.
They break in.
They have varying costs.
I like to use the ones that look good. Black and Gold is nice. Wish the Silmics were prettier, brown and not quite white visually just doesn't pop.
Now if I had the testing gear, knowledge base and such of well let's pick someone that has talked about caps recently, ConradH, I would be able to add more. An understanding the specs is something many (should I say most) here do not have in the toolbox and selecting, purchasing (costs) and installation are something that many do. Be nice to have a forum to discuss it...well at least have a knowledge base bump by those in the know.
Added with the edit:
I have been contacted about this thread and there is interest in presenting what capacitors are, materials used and other information. I read the definition and it was too complicated to put out there as the first indication of what a capacitor is so I will put a definition here: A capacitor is a passive electrical device that is used to store an electrical charge. In a simple form it consists of two conducts separated by an insulator. This is information from a web search of capacitor definition. I read a few and put something down.
There was also discussion of citing your information. When you have something technical to present, citing helps as we can go to that location and glean more information. Conrad has done that in his post on page 2 about the early days of capacitance measurement.
I would like to point out that Wiki has a good run down on caps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor
Although this thread is a general location for discussions about caps, we are probably going to give it an audio slant and not necessarily an automotive energy recovery slant. But the wiki article does cover many ideas we can expand on and the math involved can probably be ignored for almost all the discussions. I mean who still knows differential equations and integrals anymore? Like we ever really learned it.
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