Re: emc success

Hi Jeff, it sounds like something was poorly designed if it blew up
like that. Tantalum caps are used in almost every electronic
consumer and industrial product you can think of. And out of those
billions of products how many blow up. As i said before in 25 years
i have never seen one, but i have seen many electrolitics blow up.

Wally K.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Jeff Barlow <jeff@b...> wrote:
> Wally,
>
> Pardon me for butting in here, but.... In my experience the main
problem
> (if any) with tantalums is that they are simply far less tolerant of
> abuse than other capacitors. Also, when they do fail, they make a
louder
> noise. It's easy to find the dead one, though. You just look for
the two
> leads where the cap used to be.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:37:18 -0000, Wally wrote:
>
> >Hi Mariss, what is your point about the tantalum caps. If you
abuse
> >anything it will break. I am talking about tantalum caps in
normal
> >operation.
> >
> >