[sdiy] Curious capacitor in Music Easel ring modulator

[Samppa Tolvanen]

Hi,

I'd use polyester cap there.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:57 AM, ChristianH <chris at chrismusic.de> wrote:
> My guess ist that in 1973 it wasn't practical to use a non polarized
> 4.7 u cap - wasn't it that about anything beyound 1 uF was electrolytic
> back then?
>

You night be right. But even today You can find electrolytics used for
AC coupling.. usually in the cheaper gear. It's SoSo compromise,
usually for budgetary reasons, but at least for the Music Easel, I
think also the space issues might come to play.

Samppa