On 7/7/08, acousmatique put forth:
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.
>So according to Ken's pages, useful values tend to range betweenIf your heart is set on polystyrene, you might be able to find NOS on
>.047uF and .47uF? I want to use polystyrene caps for these, but the
>biggest values I have are 10,000pF
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.