Capacitor question

[Moses]

Hello everyone thanks for all the help you've been, I was wondering if these capacitors might have precious metals? much appreciate the information

 

[Golddigger76]

I believe that those are resistor arrays.
They will have a ceramic board and most have a silver or silver palladium circuits.
It takes a lot of them to make it enough to be worth refining.

 

[anarxi]

what are you breaking?
looks ancient...
there I see a lot of transistors around, on 3 legs, cut cylinders.
they may have gold plating, bite it off the board and check if it is magnetic.?
then you can use pliers to squeeze its body so that it cracks from top to bottom, along the seam.
perhaps there will be a gold plated platform.

 

[anarxi]

in addition, I see a cylinder there with a red end, this is either a diode or a capacitor, possibly tantalum....
you must also try to destroy it....
see what's inside....

 

[Marcel]

Left image looks like an array of ceramic capacitors to me. Should contain some Silver and/or Palladium.
It is the old THT version of the SMT MLCCs, which are often referred to in this forum. They are arranged in an array to ease assembly and reduce production costs.

https://www.mouser.de/ProductDetail/Vishay-BC-Components/D102K20Y5PH6TJ5R?qs=yM423xpLvpIRAXuZMJx5fw==&mgh=1&vip=1&utm_id=20968985688&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwwr6wBhBcEiwAfMEQs0oID_DBRHRdWc4Beh1fAR-KiMjJU6FRexY31xQaFZ939NbPPF38MRoCxVgQAvD_BwE

Right one could either be a resistor network or a small ceramic capacitor network.

 

[Xing]

it also contain tantalum, valuable metals

 

[anarxi]

Left image looks like an array of ceramic capacitors to me. Should contain some Silver and/or Palladium.
It is the old THT version of the SMT MLCCs, which are often referred to in this forum. They are arranged in an array to ease assembly and reduce production costs.

https://www.mouser.de/ProductDetail/Vishay-BC-Components/D102K20Y5PH6TJ5R?qs=yM423xpLvpIRAXuZMJx5fw==&mgh=1&vip=1&utm_id=20968985688&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwwr6wBhBcEiwAfMEQs0oID_DBRHRdWc4Beh1fAR-KiMjJU6FRexY31xQaFZ939NbPPF38MRoCxVgQAvD_BwE

Right one could either be a resistor network or a small ceramic capacitor network.

Capacitors are collected together either to increase capacity, or they are another product.
called - "delay line"
to delay the signal for a fixed time

 

[Marcel]

Capacitors are collected together either to increase capacity, or they are another product.
called - "delay line"
to delay the signal for a fixed time

It could indeed be the relevant use case here. Speaking from the perspective of an electronics production engineer, which I was for 20 years, the focus was on reducing costs through lower part counts among other factors.
One could also increase capacity or create a signal delay by adding 4, 5, or more discrete capacitors. However, utilizing pre-packaged units in an array setup can diminish placement time and potentially simplify circuit trimming. That was the aspect I was referencing.

 

[Marcel]

it also contain tantalum, valuable metals

We will never know, since we cannot analyze this material from afar. Tantalum THT capacitors usually have the shape of a "tear" or a "drop" though.