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Answer by Peter Green for When to use film capacitor

Film capacitors have much better linearity than most other capacitor types. They also can have relatively tight tolerances (I'm using some 2% ones) and don't suffer from significant microphonic...

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Answer by Lior Bilia for When to use film capacitor

Film capacitors do not suffer from piezoelectric effect compared to some ceramic dielectrics (X5R and X7R for example but not C0G), making them suitable for applications with high vibrations.

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Answer by C. Towne Springer for When to use film capacitor

Though it depends on your specific caps, all the very low leakage caps I have bought for precision low drift integrators (time constants of 1 second or more) were metal polyester film. They were also...

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Answer by Martin for When to use film capacitor

All capacitors have their benefits/drawbacks depending on the application.I've used Metalised polyester caps for high voltage/current resonant circuits for induction heating due to their low thermal...

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Answer by user207421 for When to use film capacitor

The question doesn't usually arise. Generally you use ceramics in the picofarad range, film in the nanofarad range, and electrolytic in the microfarad range. You would use film rather than the other...

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When to use film capacitor

I've bought a bunch of film type capacitor as they were pretty cheap and I thought it was a good idea to get some and test them. (set here)So I'm trying to figure out what's the specific application...

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