. Citation: >. >suppose the LDO has a perfectly suitable output capacitor >say a 2.2 uF Tantalum with a one Ohm ESR) which should be >perfectly stable..... and then somebody adds a few 0.01 uF >ceramic bypass capacitors on the output rail to help reduce >noise. Common sense tells us there should be no problem, >after all a few 0.01 uF caps in parallel with a 2.2 uF cap >should have no effect. The larger Tantalum should swamp out >the effects of a smaller capacitor... or would it? from: http://newsletter.planetanalog.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHik0EC2Zh0tJ0BeDf0AI ------- Mike. . -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body