DBenson77 Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 how do you use capacitors in a circuit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogo2520 Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Hello DBenson77 caps are like small battereis, the best way to learn about them is with leds,resistors, and a 555 ic timmer, pluss a breadboard. gogo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP Posted August 19, 2006 Report Share Posted August 19, 2006 how do you use capacitors in a circuitBy applying voltage to them. They don't do anything without the voltage... 8)MP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewToElectronics Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Capacitors have a variety of functions. If you have an alternating voltage source (AC) and stick it in a circuit with the capacitor, the capacitor acts as a short-circuit. If you have a DC voltage source and stick it in a circuit with a capacitor, the capacitor effectively acts as a open-circuit.The interesting application in using capacitors is that if you connect a DC source to a capacitor then to ground, you can short-circuit all the unwanted AC elements without shorting the DC source.The converse of the capacitor is the inductor which acts exactly the opposite...The inductor acts as a short-circuit in a DC application, and as an open-circuit in the AC application. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nanop Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 The topic Capacitors is very broad.They are most often used with resistors to make RC circuitswith inductors to create an oscillatorwith transistors for bias, gainalone can be used to filter out DC, and lots and lots more.There r also many many types of capacitors from ceramic to film, tiny pF ones to huge refrigerator sized capacitors of thousands, millions of F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nanop Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 [shadow=red,left][glow=red,2,300]BTW, any1 Notice this info : Date Registered: July 31, 2006, 04:08:21 PMLast Active: July 31, 2006, 04:10:41 PMThe last time he/she was active was just about 2 minutes after registering. [/glow][/shadow] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 yeah, but that really does not matter since answers to questions posted on this forum by one person could be the solution to another member's problem as well. MP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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