Re: Cap C-V test

On Sun, 04 May 2025 07:27:55 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:

On 4 May 2025 11:17:07 GMT, Michael Schwingen
<news-1513678000@discworld.dascon.de> wrote:
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On 2025-05-04, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:

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Two of those caps in series would make about half the capacitance of
two in parallel, but ESR and ESL would suffer by 4:1.

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Not really - according to your measurements, at 25V, the caps should have
about 1.46uF, so the series combination has 0.73uF instead of the 0.83uF of
the parallel combination.
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cu
Michael

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One cap is .83 at 50 volts. Two in parallel would be 1.66.
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The series pair is about .73 as you note. That assumes that the DC
voltage divides equally.
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Ceramic cap nonlinearity is weird. To get the most C, is it always
better to pick the cap with the highest nameplate capacitance?
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Some caps are 1/5 their rated C at their rated voltage. Bad for timing
circuits.

Essential to test 'em then! Are you really getting SRFs as low as just
a few K?