Right. That's when he heard it.
Tantalum caps
Sep 21, 2011
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Don't remember that. I do remember the bad low-ESR aluminum electrolytics, allegdly due to a stolen formula for electrolyte that Taiwanese makers used, which apparently omitted some stabilizers. They were typically radial caps of something like 1,000uF-2,700uF/6.3V. Bulging at the top was one symptom.
It doesn't help that aluminum electrolytics typically have a mark at the minus side (case) whereas tantalums usually have the + side marked.
Why waste perfectly good bricks? At least they have a reason to exist!
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
And locked in separate padded cells, on two different continents. At least, till one of their motherships took one of them back off world.
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
On a sunny day (Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:00:11 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
Dont chicken out, I gave you the math.
Buy them lunch/beer when they find a design error.
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Because you most likely deal with properly engineered electronics :)
Jamie
Buy them lunch/beer when they don't make a design error.
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
Yet you do it so often.
And you're AlwaysWrong.
John
So, you don't like 'Chicks'?
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.
Here's a good paper that describes the problems with conventional tantalums in great detail, and talks about what Kemet has done about it:
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