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Most manufacturers produces crimped and straight lead pairs of their capacitors which has exactly same capacitance and voltage rating. Why do they bother crimping the leads?
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Assuming I'm thinking of the same thing, crimped leads are solely a manufacturing device to allow them to insert into through holes in a PCB at a specific height, or, more importantly, to provide retention so that the part doesn't fall out when the board is flipped over for hand soldering. They have nothing specific to do with the performance of the component itself, other than for manufacturing repeatability.
Assuming I'm thinking of the same thing, crimped leads are solely a manufacturing device to allow them to insert into through holes in a PCB at a specific height, or, more importantly, to provide retention so that the part doesn't fall out when the board is flipped over for hand soldering. They have nothing specific to do with the performance of the component itself, other than for manufacturing repeatability.
Ceramic capacitors are rather brittle and so they do not like their leads getting tugged on. Adding these crimps forces the capacitor to sit off the board with a few mm of relatively flexible lead in between. This will isolate the capacitor from forces that it would otherwise experience during vibration, board flexing/bending, thermal expansion/contraction, etc. By providing the crimped leads at the factory, the board house does not require a machine to add those in-house.
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Crimping the legs of the capacitor is to make its assemble on the the through- hole PCB easier keeping the body of the capacitor at sufficient height from the surface of the PCB. I think that the question is already correctly answered from the colleagues before me.
An error may occur but how do the people treat this error. I am sorry for the forum.
The crimp offsets the component from the PCB surface, yes this helps reduce heat and mechanical stress from the part but also some flux removal fluids attacking some types of cap body in older PTH flow soldering machines . (e.g. some Polystyrene caps)
In addition to the reasons mentioned, epoxy dipped capacitors often have the epoxy extend onto the leads. By putting a crimp in the leads below that point, it prevents the epoxy from interfering with the solder flow into the hole. This results in more consistent solder joints during wave solder.
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