[sdiy] Capacitor help again

[harry bissell]

Hi Sam

you got a monolythic ceramic disk... it is a cap made on a single substrate.
Z5U is a pretty trashy dielectric, good only for the least critical apps 
like
decoupling.  the problem is the value... .1uF is a large value for a 
disc ceramic.

I use something like80-C412C104K5RC5A  Kemet "Aximax" Axial lead ceramic...
They are 50V X7R 10%    These are usually made of several capacitor 'layers'
that are stacked in parallel. These are axial lead... if you want radial 
the AVX
"Skycap" series is pretty good as well.

H^) harry


Sam Ecoff wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> well... I read Harry Bissell's great tutorial on caps. Very helpful. I 
> needed to get some 0.1 microfarad ceramic caps. I got these...
>
> http://www.mouser.com/search/refine.aspx?Ntt=140-50q9-104z-rc
>
> they seem like great caps except for the fact that they are **Freakin' 
> Humongus**. (i.e. larger than a dime) and so large that the leads 
> won't go into the PCB. Clearly, I ordered the wrong part here, so... 
> can anyone tell me where I went wrong and/or suggest the correct part 
> number?
>
> Feeling doh doh doh doh doh doh doh stupid...
>
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