Cougar has expanded its power supply lineup at CES 2026 with the announcement of three new ATX 3.1–compliant series: the ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better ...

Vishay’s 299 PHL-4TSI series of snap-in aluminum electrolytic capacitors includes a diverse selection of 350-V, 500-V, 550-V, and 600-V devices. Recent additions significantly broaden the ...

Different reverse-polarity solutions and their effectiveness at providing car battery front-end protection. How a smart diode controller can provide optimal reverse-battery protection. If the battery ...

Abstract: One of the main reasons of metal film capacitors failure in pulse modes is a degradation of contacts between film metallization and solid electrodes-contact edges. This paper presents the ...

To prevent extensive damage during operational life, these systems require the design-in of systems that – at a certain voltage level – provide protection from voltage polarity reversal. This article ...

Seven months after YouTuber Buildzoid discovered that Asus installed one of the capacitors backward on its Z690 Hero motherboard, Asus and the US Consumer Product ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

The capacitor is one of the most important electrical components, and we’ll learn how it works in this second part of the basic electronics course for kids. It will be explored in terms of energy ...