solarwind wrote:
> The thing also works perfectly
> without any capacitor at all,

As far as you can tell over the limited range of test conditions you have
applied to it.  Running it without a power supply cap is asking for trouble.
The likely symptom is that it works 99.9% of the time.

> but that's probably because I'm powering
> it from USB.

Probably not.

> since everyone keeps telling
> me to use 0.1 uF.

No they haven't.  I certainly haven't.  As I said before, 100nF bypass caps
are so 1990s.  If someone tells you that should be the standard value, you
should be careful about what other bad or outdated advice they may be
dispensing.


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