{"id":7618,"date":"2013-06-13T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T19:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2013-06-16T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T23:09:51","slug":"2013-06-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=7618","title":{"rendered":"2013-06-13 Good Article on Capacitor Leakage, Soakage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what I said: What&#8217;s soakage?\u00a0 Well, you can read more about that at the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotroom.com\/Capacitor-Self-Discharge-1.html\">the multipage article here<\/a>.\u00a0 He also discusses power storage, and most importantly, how not to measure leakage.\u00a0 The result is that the leakage of the wiring and test leads becomes noticeable, where one would never notice these in a regular circuit.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve put three transistors in a circuit so that they are DC coupled and have a huge current gain, over ten million times.\u00a0 The remaining parts are a battery, a LED and 2 current limiting resistors.\u00a0 It takes only nanoamps to turn the transistors on.\u00a0 Same goes with a MOSFET such as the 2N7000, where the gate lead is left open and can touch other surfaces.\u00a0 It will also pick up slight leakages in the nanoamps range.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the article.\u00a0 He shows that it&#8217;s important to keep &#8216;lytics charged up for awhile to &#8216;reform&#8217; them.\u00a0 The process that they go through in the factory is called forming, which deposits the insulation coating on the capacitor&#8217;s aluminum electrodes.\u00a0 After time, that thins out so charging them up again reforms the coating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what I said: What&#8217;s soakage?\u00a0 Well, you can read more about that at the end of the multipage article here.\u00a0 He also discusses power storage, and most importantly, how not to measure leakage.\u00a0 The result is that the leakage of the wiring and test leads becomes noticeable, where one would never notice these<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=7618\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,75,74,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-documents-literature","category-capacitors","category-electronic-components","category-meters-and-test-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7638,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}