AVX Tantalum Capacitor?

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!

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.

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

Tom P.

"John Popelish"

....... Phil

It's a tantalum It's therefore polarised

EOM

Cheers

PeteS

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:

(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

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

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