ProtoPIC Blog

Let’s start by understanding a capacitor. A capacitor works by storing energy electrostatically in an electric field. What is capacitance?Honestly I’m asking myself that too, so let’s try another way of thinking about it. Let us start out with an analogy: you might know that capacitors are like batteries. In some ways this is a fair analogy, they both store energy, can be charged and discharged. However this is where the similarities end. A battery stores energy in chemical form, charges and re …