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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: electrovanga on January 09, 2024, 07:40:28 pm
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Hello,
I am searching a 10nF 63V Axial Electrolytic Capacitor to make a footprint in Kicad but I really can't find it. Could you please help me to find one or about the dimensions?
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It would be difficult to find Electrolytic capacitors smaller then 100nF. Electrolytics are only used for bigger capacitances, becase their technology is not necessary for small capacitances and they have too many disadvantages for small values.
But apart from that, you are approaching your problem from the wrong direction.
1. Determine which capacitor you want to use.
2. Get a datasheet for it.
3. Find a footprint based on the size or name of the housing, and not on the capacitor value.
It is also very easy in KiCad to either make a new footprint, or to modify an existing one.
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Hello,
I am searching a 10nF 63V Axial Electrolytic Capacitor to make a footprint in Kicad but I really can't find it. Could you please help me to find one or about the dimensions?
Are you sure it's nF?
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Regardless of the type and value of the component what is really important is just its phisical dimensions. Do you already have one of such caps that you can phisically measure?
Yet I must say that a 10nF electrolityc capacitor is weird.