[sdiy] Cap assortment?

[harrybissell at wowway.com]

A lot of the stuff I have is pre-ROHS so I can store
it forever. I have not had any problems (yet) even with
ROHS stuff, but I'm soldering by hand so its easy to tell
if things are going OK or not...

H^) harry


On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:18:55 -0500, groovyshaman wrote
> So Harry, if you bought all this stuff, and if it's ROHS, how would 
> you store it?  Polypropylene ziploc bags and desiccant?  I'm just 
> curious, always looking for innovative ways to store this RHOS stuff.
> 
> -George
> 
> harrybissell at wowway.com wrote:
> > I would buy the Xicon Polystyrene Capacitor assortment boxes from
> > Mouser. These come in two ranges, one in small pF values and the
> > larger in values up to .01uF. These would be excellent for high quality
> > uses like VCO, sample hold etc.
> > 
> > Then I would buy a number (1 bought 100's but you decide) of Mylar
> > (polyester) caps in maybe 50V, 5% values.  I started at .001uF and bought up
> > to .1uF.  I bought the green coloerd Xicon caps.  5% is good for most work.
> > 
> > I'd suggest something like 
> > .001
> > .0022
> > .0033
> > .0047
> > .0068
> > .0082
> > and then repeat
> > .01
> > .022
> > ....
> > up to .1uF
> > 
> > You can buy more values to fill in the gaps but these will fill almost all
> > synth needs (filters etc)
> > 
> > I also buy .1uF, 50V axial lead cermaics (X7R) as decoupling caps
> > 
> > By the time you reach .1uf you are likely to be running out of what
> > is practical in a film capacitor. I'd then choose non-polar electrolytics
> > at 
> > 
> > 1uF
> > 4.7uF
> > 10uF
> > 
> > beyond that you can buy normal electrolytics in whatever values you need.
> > 
> > Ceramic disk caps are not bad in lower values, most of them smaller than .001
> > are usually NPO anyway. Its the larer values that get really crappy.
> > 
> > H^) harry
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:21:56 -0700, synth junk wrote
> >> My caps are garbage, I never have the right values for synth work.
> >> When I do they're usually nasty disc caps. In fact, I literally have
> >> something like 4000 of several useless values in huge bags.
> >>
> >> I want to stock the box so that means buying a bunch all at once.
> >> Trying to make my way through digikey or mouser is a nightmare. I
> >> really just don't know what to get. Can anyone recommend either
> >> several assortments, or, some specific ranges of part numbers that 
> >> are a particularly good value?
> >>
> >> As an example, I have no problem buying resistors I just go for the 
> >> 1% guys 200 at a time from mouser. I don't bother with 5% resistors 
> >> at all anymore unless I already have them and don't specifically 
> >> need a 1%.
> >>
> >> BTW: Despite the fact that you can get all 14 "All for one money",
> >> this is not what I have in mind.
> >>
> >>
> >
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> >> thanks,
> >> david
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