[sdiy] Through-Hole MLCC capacitors

David G Dixon dixon at mail.ubc.ca
Tue Jul 18 05:45:17 CEST 2017


Hey SDIY team,

Where do you guys buy your Through-Hole MLCC capacitors?  For all my synth
DIY moxy, I'm really not very good at buying stuff.  I was just on Digikey
and left very discouraged.  I'd really love to find a nice kit with a good
selection of values from about 100pF to 1uF (say, every other standard
value) in C0G and X7R at a 50V rating.  Am I dreaming the impossible dream?
Are these things really that hard to find now?  I used to get those lovely
blue EKCO caps from my university.  I loved those because they were marked
with legible white printing that I could read without a magnifying glass.
Also, even though they were 5% or 10% tolerance, they were generally within
1% of their stated values.  Of all the companies to go out of business....

Anyway, any advice would be most heartily appreciated.

Hugs,
Dave Dixon




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