It’s evidently not the answer to all variable capacitor problems, but it’s a neat piece of lateral thinking and it will make a simple working capacitor from readily available parts.

In 1954 a 12um-metalized mylar film capacitor was produced. By 1959 the list included capacitors made with polyethylene, polystyrene, polytetrafluoroethylene, PET and polycarbonate.

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Capacitor supply did take a big knock during recent shortages, which only worsened the chip deficit for PC gamers and further afield, and you might also remember the MLCC versus POS-CAP (SP-CAP ...

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Add a big capacitor, as in the following diagram, and a short pulse load can draw on the charge stored in the cap. One reader cited a TI white paper (Coin Cells and Peak Current Draw ) where the ...

Capacitors from line to ground to attenuate common mode emissions are ‘Y1’ and ‘Y2’ types rated at 8kV and 5kV but are limited in value by line leakage current considerations. In these EMI filtering ...

I have even gone so far as mounting the capacitors upright in an I-beam fashion to reduce the possible stresses. Many large ceramic capacitor arrays are even mounted in stress-relieving frames to ...