Capacitor Characteristics

A new page providing a graph of Altitude vs Capacitor Operating voltage was added. Of course it shows the capacitor case sizes which kind of also define the operating voltage. A small amount of text was also added to support the chart, but it's not much additional data yet.

Another new page was added to address Capacitor Insertion Loss. The Insertion Loss page is linked off the capacitor dictionary page starting with the Impedance Definition. This page has even less text than the other new page, but this always changes over time. The interesting thing is that the site analytics does not even show any page views yet, and I generated this page three days ago.

I also added both capacitor pages to the engineering site-map, keeping that page up to date. The site map lists all the pages contained on the Engineering Web-Site. I also found a few duplicate entries in the site map, so those got deleted, and I also added a bit of supporting text to some of the page listings.

So it appears that the capacitor dictionary section contains 19 pages, with some number of supporting pages. Of course there is also a number of pages that discuss characteristics of capacitors, sizes, MIL Spec, tolerance and so on.

Definition of Capacitor Terms

A few new pages have been added to the dictionary of Capacitor terms. The first new page is the Definition of Insulation Resistance, which is linked off the page starting with the Definition of Impedance ['I' to 'L' terms].

While the second new page covers the Definition of Failure Rate, which is linked off the page that did start with the Definition of Farad ['F' terms]. In addition a link to the Capacitor Failure Rate definition was also placed on the page covering How to Derate a Capacitor.

A number of pages in that section were also updated to include both pages in the 'D' portion; Definition of DC Leakage and Definition of Dielectric. Also the Definition of ESR.

I also added the links from the new pages to the HTML Sitemap, to keep that up to date. The sitemap was just updated yesterday to include all the page additions over the last few months. Of course the sitemap lists all the pages contain in the Engineering Website.

I should be adding a few other sub pages to the Capacitor Dictionary in a few days. Like these pages additions today, they should be a page to hold the graphic of some type of capacitor characteristic.

Capacitor Networks

I added a new page the other day on Capacitor Networks, or capacitor arrays and forgot to blog about it. The new page is linked off the Capacitor Dictionary, or Capacitor Array Definition.

The page shows three different Single In-Line Packages, two capacitor networks and one capacitor array, with standard capacitor values. A related page holds the definition of Capacitor Network.

Which for some reason does not have a page rank, not sure why. Looks like this section has 15 different pages of capacitor terms.

Comment; Ya know there is a bad side to capacitor arrays in a single package, like a SIP. Normally you want the capacitor placed as close to some component as possible. Placement becomes a bit hard once all the individual devices are placed or hard-wired within the same component. You can get one capacitor near the area you want it but the others are wired as they reside in the SIP package.

Feed-Through Capacitors

Its been a week or two with out adding any new pages, so I made time.
The new page covers Feed-Through Capacitors or Feed-Through filters, depending on who you talk to.
The page started as a copy of this page Capacitor Terms, or at least a starting place. And I already see that I didn't add that pages link back on the page..
I also added a link off the RFI Shielding page.

Definition of Capacitor Terms

There are now thirteen pages that cover the Capactior Dictionary section. Each page now has a link to all the other pages at the top of the page. In addition a few new graphics were added to aid in the defintion of the terms.

Because this section is a dictionary of Capacitor Terms not all letters are covered, but two new pages were added:

The first new page covers 'G' terms; Dictionary of Capacitor Terms, 'G'.

While the second page covers 'P' terms; Dictionary of Capacitor Terms, 'P'.

And another page for 'D' Capacitor definitions.

The definitions came from pages all ready in the section but those pages were runing a bit long. How ever because of other additions made tonight, now other pages are running to long which means that they may be sub-divided into other 'new' pages.

The dictionary pages change more than a few times a year, as more terms are added or new graphics are added, and in some cases obsolete terms are removed.

Some of the 'side' terms are still not listed in the Capacitor section, but they may be found in the Glossary of Engineering Terms section.

Note; 1/28/2010. The links to the capacitor dictionary have been updated in a newer blog posting; Indexed URLs.

Electronic Capacitor Dictionary

I added several new pages to the Capacitor Dictionary, and a few new graphics.

The capacitor section increased from 4 pages to 11 pages. The capacitor terms can be found off the main Glossary listing.


Capacitor Terms 'A',
Capacitor Terms 'B' & 'C',
Capacitor Terms 'D',
Capacitor Terms 'E',
Capacitor Terms 'F' & 'G'
Capacitor Terms 'I' & 'L',
Capacitor Terms 'M' & 'N' & 'P',
Capacitor Terms 'Q' & 'R',
Capacitor Terms 'S',
Capacitor Terms 'T',
Capacitor Terms 'V' & 'W' & 'X' & 'Y' & 'Z',

Note; this listing was updated on 1/29/2010 as Indexed URLs by Google.
As these links were no longer being counted as external links.