These aluminum electrolytic capacitors are common residents on circuit boards. We may have cut one open to satisfy our curiosity of what’s inside, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we ...

But do you know why? [Bertho] put together a great post that looks that the benefits of using decoupling capacitors in your circuits. He set up a circuit using a 74HC04 inverter and put it to the ...

Leaky capacitors (and leaky batteries) have killed many ancient computers over the years. In the case of the former, electrolytic fluid can seep out and wreak havoc on circuit boards and nearby ...