[sdiy] Tantalums in Yamaha CS20M/CS40M

[Samppa Tolvanen]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Gil W.<gil_we at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> What was the reason they used tanatalums at all, back in the days ?
> The writing on the circuit board, where the tantalum lay, shows the positive mark rather than the negative one as like any other polarized capacitor, meaning they planned dropping tantalums in there at the first place.... Any particular reason ?

Ok, lets be fair, I'm part of the NON-Tants movement. This probably
dates back to "Older than me" gear, that still "seems" to work OK with
those old Elcos. (So, freaking WHAT? I love to "print on tape" with
tube gear at average VU around zero dB - try that on Your 24/192)

Yamaha probably thought that these homeorgans they made are surpassed
by Casio made in the lifetime of the Tantalum capacitors.. little did
they know. Or maybe nobody realized, that this new, much smaller
technology has a totally different failure mode with short-circuit,
than previous.

Samppa, with a lots of speculation and no facts.