Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Uses of Capacitors


Capacitors are used for several purposes:

  • Timingfor example with a 555 timer IC controlling the charging and discharging.
  • Smoothing - for example in a power supply.
  • Coupling for example between stages of an audio system and to connect a loudspeaker.

  • Filteringfor example in the tone control of an audio system.
  • Tuningfor example in a radio system.
  • Storing energy for example in a camera flash circuit.



1 comment:

  1. high voltage film capacitors Wow, cool post. I'd like to write like this too - taking time and real hard work to make a great article... but I put things off too much and never seem to get started. Thanks though.

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