[sdiy] Query about best cap type for '2164 stability network

[Neil Johnson]

Hi Tom,

> What type of capacitor would be most suitable for the 500R/560pF stability network on the input of the 2164 VCA? (In practice I mostly use 560R/470pF - easier values to get).

Any small ceramic would do.  It sees almost no voltage across it so
need to worry about voltage effects.

> Instead it's to take interference to ground

Umm...no.  The input pin is actually the summing node of an inverting
op-amp circuit.  The RC circuit forms a lead-lag compensator to
stabilise it.  The values shown in the ADI datasheet are optimised for
a 30k input resistor.

Neil
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