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October 16, 2024 AT 9:45 am

Radio Shack vintage capacitor assortment kits #ShackToberFest

— by Anne Barela

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December 18, 2023 AT 11:01 am

The Great Search: Jellybean 10uF Ceramic Capacitors #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey #Adafruit @DigiKey @adafruit

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August 28, 2023 AT 11:44 am

The Great Search: Replacement capacitors for old boards #TheGreatSearch #digikey #adafruit @DigiKey @adafruit

— by Anne Barela

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November 1, 2022 AT 9:36 am

The Great Search: Resistor & Capacitor Packs #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey @DigiKey @Adafruit

— by Anne Barela

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Tags: capacitors, digi-key, digikey, packs, resistors, SMT, surface mount —

April 26, 2022 AT 11:29 am

The Great Search – 0402 Size RF Capacitor Kit for Antenna Tuning #DigiKey @Adafruit @digikey

— by Anne Barela

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Tags: antenna, capacitor, capacitors, digi-key, digikey, kit, RF —

March 11, 2022 AT 10:00 am

Blowing up Capacitors and Recording the Results at 187,000FPS

— by gareth branwyn

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Tags: capacitors, electronics, experimentation, explosions, fun —

February 9, 2021 AT 1:40 pm

The Great Search: Electrolytic Capacitors #TheGreatSearch #DigiKey #Adafruit @DigiKey @Adafruit

— by Anne Barela

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Tags: capacitors, digi-key, digikey, electrolytic capacitors —

January 6, 2021 AT 9:50 am

A simple point and click web-based resistor/SMD/capacitor chart #EE

— by Anne Barela

Filed under: Analog, EE, Electronics —
Tags: capacitors, color code, smd, SMT, through hole resistors —

June 30, 2020 AT 6:00 pm

Removing Electrolytic Capacitors Without Desoldering Them – we do not recommend this method

— by gareth branwyn

Filed under: Electronics —
Tags: capacitors, desoldering, learning, repair —

August 13, 2018 AT 4:44 pm

EE Design: Bypass Capacitor Resonances

— by Anne Barela

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Tags: capacitors, design, EE, resonance —

April 20, 2018 AT 1:37 pm

How a Wimshurst Machine Works – Including Leyden Jars and How a Spark Gap Occurs

— by nicknormal

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Tags: Bicycle, bicycles, capacitor, capacitors, spark —

January 31, 2018 AT 9:04 am

Watch this Capacitor Vent Smoke…So Much Smoke!

— by nicknormal

Filed under: batteries & power, components & parts —
Tags: capacitor, capacitors —

November 27, 2017 AT 11:35 am

Electrolytic Capacitors vs ‘Organic Aluminum Polymer Capacitors’ Explained | via @baldengineer

— by nicknormal

Filed under: components & parts —
Tags: capacitor, capacitors —

December 23, 2016 AT 12:34 pm

Teardown of Faulty Electrolytic Capacitor From Expensive Name Brand Monitor

— by nicknormal

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Tags: capacitor, capacitors, monitor, teardown —

October 10, 2016 AT 3:37 pm

MIT Prototypes a Carbon-less Supercapacitor

— by nicknormal

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Tags: capacitor, capacitors, energy, supercapacitor —