[sdiy] ASM Capacitors/Bench Power Supplies

[Ian Fritz]

At 03:05 PM 7/31/2003, Ian Fritz wrote:
>At 01:46 PM 7/31/2003, Neil Johnson wrote:
>>Ian,
>>
>> > >In general, ceramics is bad due to leakage, memory effects, tempco etc.
>> >
>> > Well, these are the words we always hear, of course, but what are the
>> > numbers???
>>
>>Bob Pease's article:
>>
>>         http://www.national.com/rap/Application/0,1570,28,00.html
>>
>>Neil
>
>This shows NP0 and polystyrene as very similar.  And much worse than other 
>ceramics.  As far as mica ... I understand that it depends on the quality 
>(source) of the mica itself.
>
>   Ian

Woops!  much *better* than other ceramics