Electrolytic capacitor drill and pad size

[TT_TECH]

Hi everybody
I am making footprint for lectrolytic capacitor hole diameter is .6mm what will be the drill hole size and pad outer size…
Thanks

[Joan_Sparky]

Got a datasheet link please?

IMHO:
Hole size wise I usually go 0.1… 0.2 mm bigger for PTH devices from the wire diameter. For 0.6 I’d probably use 0.7.
And pad size I then want a 0.4…0.6 mm wide copper around that hole, so in this case probably 1.5…1.6 diameter pad.

PS: I googled ‘lectrolytic’ but didn’t find anything… sure you don’t mean electrolytic?

[TT_TECH]

Need to wait…
Thanks for cooperation

[davidsrsb]

@Joan_Sparky

sure you don’t mean electrolytic?

Changed the title to something more useful in a search

[TT_TECH]

Sorry for miss spell. …
Thanks for correction

[dchisholm]

@Joan_Sparky

PS: I googled ‘lectrolytic’ but didn’t find anything… sure you don’t mean electrolytic?

Now you’re sounding like a High School English teacher! (I never got along well with that species.)

In quite a few forums (or is it “fora”?) these components are called " 'lytics" or simply “lytics” (no apostrophe). And occasionally a particular sub-class of the devices are called “tants”.

Chastising aside . . . since we have a very international membership, it is at least more courteous to err on the side of formality and correctness rather than jargon and slang.

Dale

[Joan_Sparky]

@dchisholm

In quite a few forums (or is it “fora”?) these components are called " 'lytics" or simply “lytics” (no apostrophe). And occasionally a particular sub-class of the devices are called “tants”.

Sorry, that was an honest question.
My background is German… I learned Russian from class 3 or 4 (can’t remember) and English from 5 (extracurricular, as this was the language of the western world) but mostly by reading, writing and very seldom in practical situations.
Anything about electronics I learned from my dad or in school, high-school and university, no English there.
Once the internet came en-vouge (back in the 33.6k and 56k days, when I called into the uni to get to the internet and every minute counted) I was posting on 3d graphic websites and involved there, not electronics (and once I dabbed into AVRs then it was a German website called mikrocontroller.net - still exists with a lot of nice tutorials).

So yeah… without that explanation of yours I would still not know that you blokes shortened that to ‘lytics’

PS: in Germany they short them to Elko (Elektrolytischer Kondensator).

[dchisholm]

@Joan_Sparky

Sorry, that was an honest question. [/quote]
No apology needed to me. In contemporary U.S. culture, your remark could be understood as either an honest question, or a very mildly sarcastic (but acceptable in informal conversation) attempt to alert @TT_TECH to the error in language usage. My internet provider filters out facial expressions, gestures and tone-of-voice so there’s no way I can tell exactly how you meant it.

My background is German… I learned Russian from class 3 or 4 (can’t remember) and English from 5 . . .

You have my highest admiration! I grew up immersed in the mono-lingual U.S. culture. I didn’t appreciate the value of knowing another language until I was well into my adult years, and all those brain connections that children use to acquire language had long since evaporated.

but mostly by reading, writing and very seldom in practical situations.

I volunteer with a group that assists international university students studying in the U.S. (and the spouses and children of international students). Many of them learned English primarily from written materials, and before coming to the U.S. some never spoke with anybody who learned English as their first language. Every week we have discussion topics that are designed to bring out the phrases, idioms, slang, jargon, and sentence structures used in common “street talk” - the language you hear in grocery stores, at sporting events, in a fast-food restaurant, or just walking across campus. Often we share a good laugh - students and volunteer teachers together - when somebody realizes that a particular phrase or construction means something different from its literal interpretation. And students sometimes bring in a word or phrase they have encountered, and don’t understand.

[quote] in Germany they short them to Elko (Elektrolytischer Kondensator).

I find that surprising! In the U.S., there is a stereotype that Germans never shorten ANYTHING. We believe (and I have a bit of personal experience to support the stereotype) that the German language takes phrases, or even whole sentences, and runs the words together to create a new word.

Dale

[Joan_Sparky]

Hehe… to me it looks like the U.S. folks just use the first letter… like in POTUS or NASA and the Germans, if they shorten something use at least the first two letters, especially in the army.