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Quick question on the "BASIC ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS" tutorial
« on: December 13, 2007, 11:06:27 AM »
Quote from: capacitor section of tutorial
Get a capacitor that is rated at least twice the voltage you expect to go through it. Have it rated at 1mF-10mF for every amp required. For example, if your 20V motors will use 3 amps, use a 3mF-30mF 50V rated capacitor.

is it saying a millifarad? or is it supposed uF micro farad?
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Re: Quick question on the "BASIC ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS" tutorial
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2007, 11:22:38 AM »
milli-farad

Those numbers are more rule of thumb. Basically you want maximum capacitance, but you don't want giant capacitors on your robot either. This is just a balance area that I like.

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Re: Quick question on the "BASIC ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS" tutorial
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2007, 12:11:16 PM »
ah ok. If im not mistaken, 1mF = 1000uF?

I recently fixed a big 7.1 channel receiver for someone that had two 15,000uF caps in it O_O and a huge like 25lb(~11.34kg) transformer lol, it was pretty sweet.
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Re: Quick question on the "BASIC ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS" tutorial
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2007, 12:42:43 PM »
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If im not mistaken, 1mF = 1000uF?
yup

break open a power supply if you want some big caps ;D

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Re: Quick question on the "BASIC ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS" tutorial
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2007, 02:07:31 PM »
car audio setups have huge caps for the subs

like 2" diamiter and 5" long
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Re: Quick question on the "BASIC ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS" tutorial
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2007, 02:14:05 PM »
cool beans, thanks guys :)
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Re: Quick question on the "BASIC ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS" tutorial
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2007, 04:09:15 PM »
The ones for subs in cars though can be from .5F up to 2F depending on how much you want to spend.
a 2F cap can be upwards of almost $200 if I'm not too old now.
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