Fundamental Friday
Dave explains why some designs have electrolytic capacitors connected in parallel. The answer is more in-depth than you might think.
9 reasons are given and explained, and then some thermal camera fun on the bench.
Rubycon capacitor datasheet: http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1910904.pdf
LM2678 Simpleswitcher datasheet:
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm2678.pdf
NOTE: Video #741 has been skipped for a reason.
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