[time-nuts] Capacitor failures

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Oct 22 09:31:53 UTC 2010


> However I plan on replacing all the axial types in all of my HP equipment,
> except for the tantalums, with new 105C, low ripple, high reliability types.

How does today's "low ripple" compare with back when the gear was designed?

Some regulators oscillate without enough ESR in the big filter caps.  I 
wonder if that might turn into a problem with old gear.



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