[sdiy] Failure modes on bypass caps...

[James Patchell]

I look at it like this....if you have 106   0.1uF caps on the board...that 
is 10uF....adding a 10uF Tant is not going to make much of a 
difference.  My rule of thumb is avoid Tantalums, and minimize their 
use.....and toss in as many ceramics as you like...

At 03:02 PM 12/6/2005 -0500, Aaron Lanterman wrote:

>>But in general, ceramics "do not fail", so there isn't a whole lot to 
>>worry about with them.
>
>So it sounds like the take home message is to always use ceramics for your 
>bypassing pleasure?
>
>- Aaron
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