1.5 Farad MP3 digital capacitor
Published Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
This little Fry’s ad caused a little ruckus among my electrical engineer co-workers. First a 1.5 Farad capacitor! That is just huge. Most capacitors are in the microfarads (millionths of a farad). From what I understand these large capacitors are used for the soul purpose of ensuring that your car stereo provided maximum pain to ear drums all drivers around you.Second exactly how can a capacitor be digital? A capacitor is a analog device.. there is no doubt about it (link: how capacitors work). There is no such thing as a digital capacitor right? It turns out term “digital” refers to a built-in digital voltmeter on the analog capacitor. Ok, so I guess this ad is not so strange after all… I mean we all have MP3 playing capacitors laying around our workshops don’t we?
September 29th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
I’ve seen this stupid ad twice before (in the Fry’s ad too) and had to hunt it down. I’ve missed the ads with the MP3 Player built in. I’ve considered buying one of these so that I can build a circuit that will ground off onto the vehicle frame of cars/trucks that drive over the corner of my yard. I figure 1.5 F at about 47,000 V would pretty much cook most of the electronics in a car. Any thoughts?
October 28th, 2006 at 10:33 am
Dude!
Love the idea; if it works, please email me the design and I will send you 20.00!
Stanks!
Freddy-
December 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
That would not work, these are only made to handle ~24V……and y would you need it to play mp3’s?