[sdiy] speaking of tantalums...

[Michael E Caloroso]

Smallest capacitance per cubic inch, when the race was on for more
compact packages.

MC

On 11/25/18, David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:
> This may seem like a dumb question (and maybe it is), but why did anybody
> ever use tantalum capacitors?  I've built hundreds of circuits, and I've
> never used a tantalum capacitor, ever (except once, when a MFOS circuit
> called for it, and I was too much of a noob to question it).  Am I doing it
> wrong?