On May 17, 2007, at 10:49 AM, wouter van ooijen wrote:

> For the LM1117 the ESR must be 0.3 - 22 Ohm, for the LM2940
> 0.1 - 1 Ohm.

Can one easily measure the ESR of a capacitor configuration?  I'm
afraid that most of the caps in my collection came without detailed
datasheets :-(

For purposes of Pick regulators, can you play games with
paralleling of caps, explicit series resistors, and so on?

BillW
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