@rodman99999
Without a load it will appear that the cap is passing a voltage in your example. The voltmeter, which is typically 10 megohms, is high enough impedance that it will appear as if the cap is passing voltage, but if there were any significant load you would not see anything like this.
In fact a non-polar will block DC quite effectively- and protect a tweeter from DC coming from an amplifier. The problem with non-polar caps is that they are actually two electrolytics in series. As a result, they make distortion in both directions since electrolytics can draw considerable current if reverse biased.
Now if you took two electrolytics and put them in series ('back to back', so to speak, which is how a non-polar is built) but then **also** biased their junction with a DC voltage, as long as the AC waveform going through them has less amplitude then the DC voltage (thus keeping them forward biased) they can be as low distortion as a good film cap.
Electrolytics have a bad reputation as coupling caps but they can work quite well if one understands how they work.
Without a load it will appear that the cap is passing a voltage in your example. The voltmeter, which is typically 10 megohms, is high enough impedance that it will appear as if the cap is passing voltage, but if there were any significant load you would not see anything like this.
In fact a non-polar will block DC quite effectively- and protect a tweeter from DC coming from an amplifier. The problem with non-polar caps is that they are actually two electrolytics in series. As a result, they make distortion in both directions since electrolytics can draw considerable current if reverse biased.
Now if you took two electrolytics and put them in series ('back to back', so to speak, which is how a non-polar is built) but then **also** biased their junction with a DC voltage, as long as the AC waveform going through them has less amplitude then the DC voltage (thus keeping them forward biased) they can be as low distortion as a good film cap.
Electrolytics have a bad reputation as coupling caps but they can work quite well if one understands how they work.