[sdiy] dare I say - decoupling?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 03 September 2005 01:33 pm, harrybissell wrote:

> This is why some "Harley Engineers" like myself and twin-separated-at-birth
> Jim Patchell use LOTS of decoupling caps, probably MUCH more than we really
> need to. They are not real expensive... cheap insurance.
>
> A Harley Davidson engineer was quoted as saying "At Harley-Davidson... if
> we need to make something stronger, we make it BIGGER. If that makes it
> ugly...we CHROME it"

Re:  Cheap insurance,  yeah,  I don't see much reason to debate this stuff.  
Scrapping just about anything will yield more caps than I can possibly use,  
I have boxes of 'em,  ceramics,  electrolytics,  and whatever,  and board 
space costs but not *that* much -- at worst just tack solder the darn things 
in where some other component lives.

No reason I can see not to use a whole mess of decoupling caps all over the 
place.  Lots and lots of them...