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To: babygene

Why do you think they solder down the capacitors on a circuit board?

They don’t want them floating away.


20 posted on 07/15/2011 5:49:35 AM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: dangerdoc

Why do you think they solder down the capacitors on a circuit board? They don’t want them floating away.
***Actually, when one starts up an Automated Test Equipment (ATE) rig, there are capacitors in the 10K - 100K Volt range that charge up, and the whole machine jumps a bit. Since the rig weighs several hundred pounds, that makes the impulse vector to be several hundred pounds. I think this is called the Poynting vector.

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/pft01.htm


28 posted on 07/16/2011 1:26:25 AM PDT by Kevmo (Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn't make any sense at all. ~Ronald Reagan)
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