[sdiy] Newbie capacitor questions 2 - Return of the Cap.

[Ian Fritz]

At 10:20 AM 1/9/2005, Samppa Tolvanen wrote:

> > Ceramic has a significant soakage effect, as someone pointed out here
> > previously.  They seem to work pretty well, anyway, though.
>
>..but not recommended for "critical" parts of the circuit - like osc.
>integrator cap ect.?

I have found that they seem to work OK for VCO integrator caps, and I 
wouldn't argue against using them there.  My preference, though, is to use 
polystyrene and to carefully compensate the drift.