User talk:Elcap/Types of capacitor

New edition

The actual existing article “Types of capacitor” contains a lot of discrepancies, f. e.

Under the sub-header “Types of dielectric” a lot of different things are mixed. It contains

• general dielectric materials like: Air-gap, Ceramic, Glass, Paper, Vacuum,
• detailed dielectric materials like: C0G, NP0, X7R, X8R, Polycarbonate, Polyester, Polystyrene, Polypropylene, PTFE or Teflon
• capacitor types like: Electrolytic capacitors, Polymer capacitors, Trimmer, Double-layer capacitors,
• “home-made” capacitors like: Gimmick, Printed circuit board,
• very special customized types like: integrated circuits,

The sequence of the capacitor types in the table “Fixed capacitor comparisons” are not methodic, f. e. Paper, Metallized paper and Alternating current oil-filled capacitors as well as Direct current oil-filled and Kraft capacitor paper belong together. Additional capacitor types and application capacitor names are mixed.

Especially the comments to paper capacitors sounds like written in the 1950th and are old fashioned and partly obsolete.

Under the sub-header “Non-ideal properties of practical capacitors” some properties are described, which are standardized and in datasheets specified as “rated values”.

In the new edition of this article I have tried to follow strictly the industrial and the standardized view of the most important industrial produced capacitors. Greetings --Elcap (talk) 09:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Ceramics

Maximum capacitance values of class 1 NP0/C0G MLCC chips

Rated- voltage	Case size, EIA Code Dimensions in mm
	0201	0402	0603	0805	1206	1210	1812
	0.5×0.3	1.0×0.5	1.6×0.8	2.0×1.2	3.2×1.6	3.2×2.5	4.5×3.2
	Max. capacitance
25 V	100 pF	2.2 nF	15 nF	47 nF	100 nF	220 nF	-
50 V	220 pF	1.5 nF	6.8 nF	33 nF	100 nF	150 nF	220 nF
100 V	–	1 nF	4.7 nF	15 nF	47 nF	100 nF	150 nF
250 V	–	–	680 pF	2.2 nF	6.8 nF	15 nF	47 nF
630 V	–	–	–	–	3.3 nF	6.8 nF	22 nF
1000 V	–	–	–	120 pf	–	680 pF	2.2 nF

Maximum capacitance values of class 2-X7R-MLCC chips

Rated- voltage	Case size, EIA Code Dimensions in mm
	01005	0201	0402	0603	0805	1206	1210	1812	2220
	0.25×0.12	0.5×0.3	1.0×0.5	1.6×0.8	2.0×1.2	3.2×1.6	3.2×2.5	4.5×3.2	5.7×5.0
	Max. capacitance
6.3 V	–	–	1.0 µF	2.2 µF	10 µF	–	47 µF	–	-
10 V	1.5 nF	10 nF	680 nF	2.2 µF	10 µF	22 µF	47 µF		-
16 V	–	4.7 nF	220 nF	470 nF	4.7 µF	10 µF	22 µF	33 µF	47 µF
25 V	1.5 nF	3.3 nF	100 nF	470 nF	2.2 µF	4.7 µF	10 µF	22 µF	10 µF
50 V	-	1.5 nF	100 nF	1.0 µF	4.7 nF	10 µF	22 µF	22 µF	22 µF
100 V	–	–	4.7 nF	100 nF	0.47 µF	2.2 µF	2.2 µF	2.2 µF	4.7 µF
250 V	–	–	–	2.2 nF	22 nF	100 nF	220 nF	0.47 µF	1.0 µF
630 V	–	–	–	–	–	33 nF	68 nF	0.1 µF	0.22 µF
1000 V	–	–	–	–	–	4.7 nF	22 nF	47 nF	100 nF
2000 V	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4.7 nF	10 nF