3 ms·
> "You have 12VAC, you can buy a 16V cap and that's all" 12VAC has an RMS measure of 12 volts but a peak voltage of ~17V. (I'm not saying that no one's done ex
by sokoloff 3y ago
> "You have 12VAC, you can buy a 16V cap and that's all"
12VAC has an RMS measure of 12 volts but a peak voltage of ~17V. (I'm not saying that no one's done exactly that, but when they did, they were operating outside the rating in the first 1/120th of a second of operation.)
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoI threw numbers out. But in many applications in many circuits with many aluminum electrolytics that would still be fine. It's tantalums that you super-duper do not ever exceed the rated voltage of, and double that for reverse polarity.