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PS capacitors (filter, reservoir, smoothing...)

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goody75

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I am trying to learn how to read audio schematics and identify various devices (especially capacitors) and their functions within the circuit.

I have read people referring to power supply capacitors as low-pass filters, reservoir caps & smoothing caps. Are these all different terms for the same capacitor application or are they different applications? Especially if they are different applications, can anyone give me a tip for identifying them.

Thanks.
 
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Those are all the functions of filter caps in the power supply, which are both filtering out any ripple from the rectifiers and acting as an energy storage device.
 
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