[sdiy] Are power electrolytics microphonic?
Toby Paddock
tpaddock at seanet.com
Thu Apr 5 05:28:58 CEST 2001
Semi-OT:
I'm doing vibration testing on some fairly large (but not real large)
electrolytic caps. And I was wondering if I could find the resonant
frequency of the guts by charging it up thru a high resistance and
looking for an AC signal when the stuff starts flexing inside.
(That sentence was way too long.)
Seems like if the layers flex and move, it might change the
capacitance. So with a constant charge, that would vary
the voltage.
They are like 450 WVDC and I don't know the C value. The
aluminum can is about 1.25 inch dia. by 3.5 inches long.
Ideas? Opinions? Advice? Point and laugh?
Thanks,
- -- - Toby Paddock
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