Hi, I've been trying to figure out what the different colors on solid polymer aluminum capacitors mean. They're on new motherboards and video cards, and some have many colors on the same board, but are in clusters of the same color. The color is in a crescent shape on the edge of the metal can. Any ideas? Thanks
Hi, I've been trying to figure out what the different colors on solid polymer aluminum capacitors mean. They're on new motherboards and video cards, and some have many colors on the same board, but are in clusters of the same color. The color is in a crescent shape on the edge of the metal can. Any ideas? Thanks
Thanks for the responses. What do the colors mean on traditional electrolytic capacitors? I've seen blue, red, pink, green, purple, and black colors on these, but only blue, red, and black on regular electrolytics. Also, some motherboards seem to use different combinations of these in clusters, either all one color throughout the board, or red around the CPU area and blue somewhere else, or things like that.
Thanks for the responses. What do the colors mean on traditional electrolytic capacitors? I've seen blue, red, pink, green, purple, and black colors on these, but only blue, red, and black on regular electrolytics.
So could they just be branding? I see on those capacitors in the picture that the blue ones and the purple ones have differently applied coloring; the blue one isn't as hard-edged as the purple and has a different font.
So could they just be branding? I see on those capacitors in the picture that the blue ones and the purple ones have differently applied coloring; the blue one isn't as hard-edged as the purple and has a different font.