[sdiy] Updating the Tau 1010 VCO

Jim Coursey jim at antsclimbtree.com
Wed Apr 6 16:19:06 CEST 2011


On Apr 6, 2011, at 5:09 AM, Harry Bissell wrote:

> C0G (NP0) caps are quite good, but available (usually) in small  
> values. I'd switch to polystyrene
> once you need
> a value that is hard to get. Polystyrene caps would be larger, have  
> more parasitic inductance, and
> be sensitive to soldering temperatures and some solvents. C0G  
> ceramics are pretty indestructable.
>
> H^) harry


What about in the audio path?  For filtering or the like.  Is there  
still an advantage to polystyrene/polypropylene/etc.?

-Jim



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