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Change Pin Number to Names for Polarized Capacitor |
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m.elsayed 
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 Topic: Change Pin Number to Names for Polarized CapacitorPosted: 29 Sep 2025 at 1:19pm |
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Can’t change pin names in polarized capacitor.
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Tom H
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Posted: 29 Sep 2025 at 1:41pm |
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What pin names do you want?
Give us an example. |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2025 at 7:54pm |
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P & N
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Posted: 29 Sep 2025 at 8:08pm |
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In my 51 years in the PCB design industry, I've never seen a EE engineer name capacitor pins P & N in the schematic.
But it could be a new thing that I haven't heard of yet. In the IPC world, all positive pins are 1 and negative pins are 2. Pin 1 always on the left. Diodes are different because there have been too many errors made using pin names 1 & 2. However, many EE engineers use Pins 1 & 2 for diodes. The main problem with diodes is LEDs. The polarity marking on a diode is on the cathode. The polarity marking on many LEDs is on the Anode. Thus comes the confusion. Renamed pins are saved to the FPX file and there is no provision for saving alpha pin names for capacitors (yet). |
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