Bi-polar capacitors

[Fir3Chi3f]

Haven't been able to find any discussion on these (although momaka has proven my searching skills are lacking).

Few years ago lightning struck real close to the house, the lights dimmed and the only casualty was the router (Linksys wrtsl54gs). Well, capacitors and soldering were scary and I had no clue how these things worked. So with a lot of time, but not a lot of knowledge, I learned about bi-polar or non polarized capacitors and soldered one of those in with the same farad value (I knew at least that much).

Pic related it is the router that has been working since.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Bi-polar capacitors

A bipolar cap is basically two polarized electros back to back (leads of the same polarity in series). You can hack one like that if you don't have a real bipolar on hand, just keep in mind that two caps of the same value in series = half the capacitance.

[Fir3Chi3f]

Re: Bi-polar capacitors

Neat, I might try and cut that thing open

[c_hegge]

Re: Bi-polar capacitors

just keep in mind that two caps of the same value in series = half the capacitance.

I would have thought that there would be two 470uF caps in there to make up for that