From: Ken on
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:22:59 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid>
wrote:

> Tried the major mfgs and the typical datasheet looks like this:
>
> http://www.avx.com/docs/Catalogs/cx7s.pdf
>
> Quote "Capacitance for X7S varies under the influence of electrical
> operating conditions such as voltage and frequency."


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http://web.archive.org/web/20070912104727/http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080203162906/http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps1.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20071107034022/http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps2.html

From: Robert Baer on
Joerg wrote:
> Tried the major mfgs and the typical datasheet looks like this:
>
> http://www.avx.com/docs/Catalogs/cx7s.pdf
>
> Quote "Capacitance for X7S varies under the influence of electrical
> operating conditions such as voltage and frequency."
>
> Then under diagrams ... nada, zip, zilch. Great.
>
> One paper listed X7S with the same voltage coefficient as X7R but that
> doesn't sound right. Anyone have a link to some hard data, with a graph
> in there and preferably no marketing hype?
>
I know that the rating system of ceramic capacitors allow "X7S" but i
have never seen (anything)(anything)S even sold...
So why the question?
From: Muzaffer Kal on
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:27:48 -0800, Robert Baer
<robertbaer(a)localnet.com> wrote:

>Joerg wrote:
>> Tried the major mfgs and the typical datasheet looks like this:
>>
>> http://www.avx.com/docs/Catalogs/cx7s.pdf
>>
>> Quote "Capacitance for X7S varies under the influence of electrical
>> operating conditions such as voltage and frequency."
>>
>> Then under diagrams ... nada, zip, zilch. Great.
>>
>> One paper listed X7S with the same voltage coefficient as X7R but that
>> doesn't sound right. Anyone have a link to some hard data, with a graph
>> in there and preferably no marketing hype?
>>
> I know that the rating system of ceramic capacitors allow "X7S" but i
>have never seen (anything)(anything)S even sold...
> So why the question?

Digikey has 244 items listed in stock with X5S, X6S, X7S and Y5S
temperature coefficients.
From: Joerg on
Ken wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:22:59 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> Tried the major mfgs and the typical datasheet looks like this:
>>
>> http://www.avx.com/docs/Catalogs/cx7s.pdf
>>
>> Quote "Capacitance for X7S varies under the influence of electrical
>> operating conditions such as voltage and frequency."
>
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070206080241/http://members.aol.com/sbench102/cap.html
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070912104727/http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps.html
> http://web.archive.org/web/20080203162906/http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps1.html
> http://web.archive.org/web/20071107034022/http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps2.html
>

Well, I know what Z5U does. But it doesn't tell me what X7S does :-)

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From: Joerg on
Robert Baer wrote:
> Joerg wrote:
>> Tried the major mfgs and the typical datasheet looks like this:
>>
>> http://www.avx.com/docs/Catalogs/cx7s.pdf
>>
>> Quote "Capacitance for X7S varies under the influence of electrical
>> operating conditions such as voltage and frequency."
>>
>> Then under diagrams ... nada, zip, zilch. Great.
>>
>> One paper listed X7S with the same voltage coefficient as X7R but that
>> doesn't sound right. Anyone have a link to some hard data, with a
>> graph in there and preferably no marketing hype?
>>
> I know that the rating system of ceramic capacitors allow "X7S" but i
> have never seen (anything)(anything)S even sold...
> So why the question?


Because distributors sell them and I'd like to use this one:

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=445-5211-2-ND

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