Russell McMahon wrote:

> If you want to produce a product which MIGHT smell, shriek, explode and
> catch fire and/or short out various parts of its circuitry at indeterminate
> future dates then Tantalum caps are definitely the way to go ! Because this
> isn't what happens in all cases and because, if you design well and are very
> careful and lucky you may not have any problems, you are now liable to have
> people telling you what fine caps Tantalums are ;-)

I've seen resistors smoke and explode a lot
too, maybe we should all stop using resistors. ;o)
I don't know what bad experiences you had with
the tantalums but I haven't seen any trouble with
them. But then I never use a 16v cap on a 16v
power supply rail.
-Roman

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