EFM Load; polystyrene caps availability
tomg
vco at mindspring.com
Sat May 22 11:44:30 CEST 1999
> Tom:
>
> You message triggered something I seem to remember reading from a few years
> ago, that that the cap manufacturers were stopping the building of
> polystyrene caps. Production cost and difficulty making surface mount parts
> that can take soldering were what did 'em in I think. Are far as high
> performance poly* types go, I suppose the preferred stuff is polypropelene
> and polycarbonate. What are folks using for caps for VCOs, VCF's and
> Keyboard Voltage Processing (S/H, Portamento, etc.) anyways?
>
> Michael
I've been out all day, so this is probably late...but you can still get 'em
from Mouser 1000pf (23PS210 $.022) and 2200pf (23PS222 $.024) but you
have to order them....and wait... I'm ok with the first part, but I run straight
to the mail box after I hang up the phone....:-)
-tg
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