ANIRUDH VIJ wrote: > """""""" > Unless you know the circuit type (LC, RC, ...), its expected input and > output, you are risking havoc by changing the value of *any* of the > components in the circuit. IIRC, by changing the the capacitor to a > higher voltage rating, you have altered (possibly) at least two things > (assuming the circuit is more than a simple power conditioning circuit) > that may be critical. > """"" > The critical thing here is "value of component",not the voltage rating.I > completely agree that > changing the capacitors's value from 2200uf to something else may have caused > havoc,but > increasiing its voltage rating can only be a good thing.It only means that > the chances of a capacitor > exploding are lesser :) > If i correctly understood the previous post,the voltage rating increased > while the value remained the > same,so the capacitor itself should not be the source of the problem. > <snip>
Thanks for that Anirudh. I hope it saves him some unneeded work. Based on your sig below, might you have some other useful suggestions for him? As I said, I really don't know a lot about this stuff. > -- > Anirudh Vij > Undergraduate Student > Electrical Engineering Department > IIT Madras. > > -- wit -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
