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    The pros and cons of various capacitor types

    As a mechanical analogy, I guess in some ways this is asking what is the best type of screw or bolt. There are several materials, threads, drives, heads, etc. Titanium would be good in a application for light weight and/or high temperature. Stainless steel would be good for corrosion...
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    The pros and cons of various capacitor types

    Hello, I know that capacitors are made from several different materials, but when I don't really have a good grasp of are the advantages and disadvantages of the different materials. For instance, I have built a few simple power supplies and used electrolytic caps (because I wanted a large...

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