In summary, TDK-EPCOS offers a wide variety of capacitors for lighting applications. Capacitors are needed in every step of the way when dealing with efficient and long lasting LED applications. With LED lighting growing at a rapid pace, demand for products like these will continue to climb and grow for safety, lifetime, and specification reasons. Epcos offers different types of capacitors for various portions of the driver circuitry. The X2 capacitors, rated to 305 VAC, are capable of being applied in the input protection area connected directly to the AC mains. In the rectification portion of the circuit aluminum electrolytic capacitors for filtering. Lastly, in the output filter area the MKT/polyester type capacitors are recommended.