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While capacitors can store energy, as batteries do, capacitors can release all their stored energy
very quickly.

Some types of capacitors are polarized like Electrolytic and some of them are not polarized like
Ceramic. Farad is the unit of capacitor, it is really a big value, it is rare to find a capacitor whose
value is near to 1 Farad.

The most common values for Capacitors are Microfarad( F), Nanofarad(nF) and Picofarad(pF).
µ
-6
Microfarad = 10 Farad
-9
Nanofarad = 10 Farad
Picofarad = 10 -12 Farad

Below you can see an Electrolytic capacitor, it is easy to read its value, for example the one
below is 4700 F.
µ

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