Watch those MinnesOHta digs, there, Mark.
Watch it, or... Uff da, dontcha know!
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Watch it, or... Uff da, dontcha know!
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Scott Deyo (In the land of two seasons: winter and mosquito-time)
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On Jul 7, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Mark wrote:
> 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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