capacitor voltage

[Troy Sheets]

It is always good practice to derate your cap voltage by 50%... so, if you
have 12V, use 25V.

Just good safety practice...

-troy

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:47:51PM +0100, Kyn Si wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How do you determine the voltage a capacitor should have? I the power is 
> for instance 12V can I use 16V caps or should I use 25V?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> corneel.
> 
> 
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