Small glass capacitors polarized?
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Sep 27 14:05:13 CDT 2015
> From: drlegendre
> I'm not sure what you're describing. Can you link to a pic of one of
> these caps?
http://www.electrical4u.com/images/glass-capacitor.jpg
> From: tony duell
> Incidentally, what are you using those capacitors for?
I'm taking a half-filled QBUS memory card and filling it.
> Why not some other type?
Because on that board, they fitted _underneath_ the DIP sockets,
and nothing else will fit down there!
> I am pretty sure they are not polarised, you can fit them either way.
> In general capacitors under 1uF are not polarised
> ...
> Anything over 100uF is very likely to be polarised.
Thanks, help much appreciated!
Noel
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