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---All Kinds of Capacitors

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Our Suntan offers all kinds of capacitors, including AC motor running capacitors and AC motor starting capacitors. All of our motor starting capacitors with CE approval.
Please refer to our product list and contact with us for more details. 

Suntan Technology Company Limited
---All kinds of Capacitors

Suntan TS08HT technical requirements are higher than other components. We continue to improve the quality to meet the change of  the flexible market. Today, we launched the boutique version of TS08HT, which is the upgraded type from TS08Z, but price is almost as same as before. TS08Z is the common Class X2 capacitors for For Capacitive Divider, but TS08HT is especially designed for working under harsh environments 85°C and high humidity conditions 85% with Capacitive Divider function. TS08HT is applicable in both Across-the-line EMI filtering and connection in series with the mains circuits.

The Temperature Humidity Bias (THB) Series -TS08HT meets a full complement of safety agency X2 Class approvals, including VDE & ENEC and UL. With these international safety approvals, in the event of a failure, X2 Class devices do not present an electrical shock hazard to users of the equipment.

TS08HT 85/85 THB Series applications include outdoor appliances, ATMs, vending machines, kiosks, motor controls, AC line suppression, industrial controls, power supplies, ballasts and antenna coupling. Checking more details at :http://www.suntan.com.hk/Plastic-Film-Capacitors/TS08HT.html

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---All kinds of Capacitors

The multilayer ceramic capacitor has a many-layered dielectric. These capacitors are small in size, and have good temperature and frequency characteristics.

Suntan Technology Company Limited
---All kinds of Capacitors

A capacitor's storage potential, or capacitance, is measured in units called farads. A 1-farad capacitor can store one coulomb (coo-lomb) of charge at 1 volt. A coulomb is 6.25e18 (6.25 * 10^18, or 6.25 billion billion) electrons. One amp represents a rate of electron flow of 1 coulomb of electrons per second, so a 1-farad capacitor can hold 1 amp-second of electrons at 1 volt.

A 1-farad capacitor would typically be pretty big. It might be as big as a can of tuna or a 1-liter soda bottle, depending on the voltage it can handle. For this reason, capacitors are typically measured in microfarads (millionths of a farad).

To get some perspective on how big a farad is, think about this:

• A standard alkaline AA battery holds about 2.8 amp-hours.
• That means that a AA battery can produce 2.8 amps for an hour at 1.5 volts (about 4.2 watt-hours -- a AA battery can light a 4-watt bulb for a little more than an hour).
• Let's call it 1 volt to make the math easier. To store one AA battery's energy in a capacitor, you would need 3,600 * 2.8 = 10,080 farads to hold it, because an amp-hour is 3,600 amp-seconds.

If it takes something the size of a can of tuna to hold a farad, then 10,080 farads is going to take up a LOT more space than a single AA battery! Obviously, it's impractical to use capacitors to store any significant amount of power unless you do it at a high voltage.

Applications

The difference between a capacitor and a battery is that a capacitor can dump its entire charge in a tiny fraction of a second, where a battery would take minutes to completely discharge. That's why the electronic flash on a camera uses a capacitor -- the battery charges up the flash's capacitor over several seconds, and then the capacitor dumps the full charge into the flash tube almost instantly. This can make a large, charged capacitor extremely dangerous -- flash units and TVs have warnings about opening them up for this reason. They contain big capacitors that can, potentially, kill you with the charge they contain.

Capacitors are used in several different ways in electronic circuits:

• Sometimes, capacitors are used to store charge for high-speed use. That's what a flash does. Big lasers use this technique as well to get very bright, instantaneous flashes.
• Capacitors can also eliminate ripples. If a line carrying DC voltage has ripples or spikes in it, a big capacitor can even out the voltage by absorbing the peaks and filling in the valleys.
• A capacitor can block DC voltage. If you hook a small capacitor to a battery, then no current will flow between the poles of the battery once the capacitor charges. However, any alternating current (AC) signal flows through a capacitor unimpeded. That's because the capacitor will charge and discharge as the alternating current fluctuates, making it appear that the alternating current is flowing.

In the next section, we'll look at the history of the capacitor and how some of the most brilliant minds contributed to its progress.