Juan Cubillo wrote: >I have always used Ceramic Disc 0.1uF caps as much as I can all over my >projects and they seem to work great. Adding an extra 47uF electrolitic on >the ouput of voltage regulators is also a big help. >Juan Cubillo > > > > That's been my experience, too. Using ceramic caps then adding tantalum electrolytics in parallel seems to utilize the best of both technologies, i.e. no problems with failures of tantalums due to spiking. --Bob -- Note: To protect our network, attachments must be sent to attach@engineer.cotse.net . 1-866-263-5745 USA/Canada http://beam.to/azengineer -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist