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Why Raise Capacitance in Smoothing Caps?

MITEE

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I watched a vid the other day and the guy changed the main smoothing caps from 6800uf to 10,000uf.

What is the reasoning for doing this, and what are the instances in which you wouldn't do such a thing?
 

Martaine2005

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One reason could be to further smooth the ripple. Especially under load.


Martin
 

CircutScoper

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One reason could be to further smooth the ripple. Especially under load.


Martin
Yeah. Ripple. Smoooooth!

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danadak

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If you raise cap values :

1) Time to discharge when powering off increased.
2) Surge current on power up increase. More stress for other components.
3) Ramp up time at power on increased.


Regards, Dana.
 

bertus

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Hello,

Have a look at this picture:
unit12_capacitor change.png

More info in the attached PDF.

Bertus
 

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