All I'll say on the subject at this point is that tantalum caps are great
when you are dealing with lots of noise in a digital circuit, when you just
can't seem to decouple well enough with cheap ceramic discs. I don't care
why, nor do I care how many more pennies they cost. They just make great
decoupling caps.

CL

>
> > 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.
>

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