In Reply to: Re: To a certain extent posted by Steve Eddy on January 13, 2006 at 17:28:44:
The MIL-C-19978D test, commonly referenced among capacitor manufacturers, specifies a five second charge time, a five second discharge time (into a dead short), then a one minute recovery time.Many electrolytics, tantalums and hi-K ceramics measure several percent recovery voltage with this test.
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- Re: To a certain extent - Tom Dawson 01/13/0618:06:17 01/13/06 (10)
- Re: To a certain extent - Steve Eddy 18:42:56 01/13/06 (9)
- Re: To a certain extent - Tom Dawson 22:01:45 01/13/06 (8)
- Re: To a certain extent - Steve Eddy 22:59:25 01/13/06 (2)
- I just knew SE would start out by denigrating the applicability of the milspec test.... - Tom Dawson 23:22:54 01/13/06 (1)
- Re: I just knew SE would start out by denigrating the applicability of the milspec test.... - Steve Eddy 23:38:31 01/13/06 (0)
- Re: To a certain extent - Dominic 22:22:44 01/13/06 (4)
- I was just giving SE a little food for thought up front. nt - Tom Dawson 22:50:06 01/13/06 (2)
- You offer nothing but junk food with virtually no nutritional value. nt - Steve Eddy 23:00:47 01/13/06 (1)
- Boy, you sure put the MIL-C-19978D test in its place! - Tom Dawson 23:35:51 01/13/06 (0)
- Re: To a certain extent - Steve Eddy 22:32:27 01/13/06 (0)