Talk:Ceramic capacitor

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In my limited knowledge, i beleive that ceramic disc capacitors are coded with a 3 digit code, i think it would be useful if somebody more well informaed than myself could add information about these codes - eg how to understand them and relate them to microfarads etc. Maybe include a link to a site with a table of values?

Added this. --I hate to register 12:40, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

--sandeep, RF-Engineer 11:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC) A Ceramic capacitor consists of a wafer of ceramic material between two silver plates. Leads are connected to the plates & the entire assembly is encased in a protective plastic shield. This type is called a ceramic capacitor or because of its most comman shape a ceramic disc. Some ceramic capacitors however are enclosed in rectangular cases. There is no electrical differences & often the rectangular units are called ceramic discs anyway.

That's actually more useful than the article its self. How about adding this to the article? 75.100.155.122 06:50, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HF use of Ceramic

I think the statements about the satisfactory use of ceramic caps in Very High Frequency is incorrect. I believe that at very high frequency - such as radio frequency - ceramic caps are not ideal. Maybe there should be a distinction - that at frequencies up to 100KHz, ceramic is OK - above that - ceramics are not ideal.

Source Basic Electronics Theory By Delton T. Horn —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seneca60BC (talk • contribs) 11:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)