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Re: ASR cap values?

2008-07-07 by Mark

On 7/7/08, acousmatique put forth:
>So according to Ken's pages, useful values tend to range between
>.047uF and .47uF? I want to use polystyrene caps for these, but the
>biggest values I have are 10,000pF

If your heart is set on polystyrene, you might be able to find NOS on
ebay or something, but 10nF is largest value still available from
Xicon. Also, be very careful and use a heat sink when soldering
polystyrene caps. They can't take heat, which is one reason why they
are no longer being made.

Have you considered PPS?? Mouser sells a 220nF PPS cap for .79. I
think you can get Panasonics in larger values from Digikey, but their
online parametric search sucks and I'm still waiting on a catalog. I
just placed an order with Ken, and it showed up in a few days. Good
thing he's not in an exotic far away place like Minnesota.

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