AVX Tantalum Capacitor?

[MRW]

Hello everyone!

Is this capacitor bipolar or polarized?

http://www.avxcorp.com/docs/Catalogs/tps.pdf

Thanks!

 

[Eeyore]

Hello everyone!

Is this capacitor bipolar or polarized?

http://www.avxcorp.com/docs/Catalogs/tps.pdf

What made you think they might be bipolar ?

Graham

 

[MRW]

What made you think they might be bipolar ?

Graham

Hi Graham,

I guess I don't know much. I'm not too familiar with capacitor types.
But I just saw another document related to it, and it seems like they
are polarized.

Thanks!

 

[John Popelish]

Hello everyone!

Is this capacitor bipolar or polarized?

http://www.avxcorp.com/docs/Catalogs/tps.pdf

Thanks!

They have a DC voltage rating, not AC, so are polarized. If
you blow up the color photo on the first page, you can see
the polarity indicator bar.

 

[tlbs101]

Hello everyone!

Is this capacitor bipolar or polarized?

http://www.avxcorp.com/docs/Catalogs/tps.pdf

Thanks!

We've used them here, at work. They are polarized.

Tom P.

 

[Phil Allison]

"John Popelish"

They have a DC voltage rating,

** So do ordinary plastic film caps & bi-polar electros.

not AC, so are polarized.

** False conclusion.




........ Phil

 

[PeteS]

Hi Graham,

I guess I don't know much. I'm not too familiar with capacitor types.
But I just saw another document related to it, and it seems like they
are polarized.

Thanks!

It's a tantalum
It's therefore polarised

EOM

Cheers

PeteS

 

[Grouchy]

Hello everyone!

Is this capacitor bipolar or polarized?

http://www.avxcorp.com/docs/Catalogs/tps.pdf

Thanks!

MR. Whate,

AVX will provide a 'data book' for those particular components upon
request. Here's the link for the request form from the AVX site:

https://www.avx.com/RequestLiterature.asp

(because they're not the only manufacturer of this category of parts,
it's often the case that their selection of technical papers is
limited. If you can't find your answer from the selection offered on
line, or from the additional literature available... you might try the
NIST sub-division, or EEEL, or etc.)

Good luck.

Grouchy

 

[Rich Grise]

What made you think they might be bipolar ?

Because it doesn't say anywhere in that data sheet. This is
sci.electronics.basics, where there are no stupid questions.

The closest indication the above-linked data sheet has, that
I was able to find, is, "For part markings, refer to page
163", and the .pdf I downloaded is only 6 pages.

To the OP - you'll need more of a data sheet (which you could
probably get from a catalog or the AVX web site), or actually
sacrifice one to test it and see which way it's marked.

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Ross Herbert]

Because it doesn't say anywhere in that data sheet. This is
sci.electronics.basics, where there are no stupid questions.

The closest indication the above-linked data sheet has, that
I was able to find, is, "For part markings, refer to page
163", and the .pdf I downloaded is only 6 pages.

To the OP - you'll need more of a data sheet (which you could
probably get from a catalog or the AVX web site), or actually
sacrifice one to test it and see which way it's marked.

Good Luck!
Rich

Capacitor markings
http://www.avxcorp.com/docs/Catalogs/packmark.pdf