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Help with Capacitors

raulduke1011raulduke1011 Posts: 17
edited 2008-03-21 13:44 in BASIC Stamp
I'm fairly new to the this field as I have finished the 'What is a Microcontroller?' kit and am just about done with the intro to Boe-Bot kit. All seems to be coming together quite well for me except for when it comes to the capacitor. I grasp the concept of them as it's pretty straight forward and the example in the kit works of course but I just can't seem to get the simplest of my own attempts to succeed. Can anyone provide me with an example or a link to where I can enlighten myself?

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  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2008-03-20 22:45
    Try the Wikipedia. Do a Google / Yahoo search for "wiki capacitor" or "wiki capacitance".

    Think of a capacitor as a reservoir for electricity and see where you get to (with pipes for the wires and resistors ... the bigger the pipe, the lower the resistor).
  • UghaUgha Posts: 543
    edited 2008-03-21 04:56
    Are you trying to use the caps in series or parallel?
    Most uses for caps you'll have use them in parallel.
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2008-03-21 13:44
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