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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