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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: Tony Forestiere on June 09, 2004, 08:06:10 PM

Title: Another stupid question about caps
Post by: Tony Forestiere on June 09, 2004, 08:06:10 PM
:oops:Tonepads TS clone, "El Griton", wants to have two 0.22 microfarad TANTALUM caps. Can't find them locally. Could electrolytics be subbed? What is their purpose? They appear to be noise reduction.

(Sorry...2 stupid questions!) :oops:

Thanks,
Tony
Title: Another stupid question about caps
Post by: RDV on June 09, 2004, 08:20:53 PM
They're tantalums because they're small, a film cap would work fine, but would be too big for FP's layout.

HTH

RDV
Title: Another stupid question about caps
Post by: brett on June 09, 2004, 09:06:13 PM
Quotea film cap would work fine, but would be too big for FP's layout
An MKT cap (those little "box" ones) works fine.  In fact, MKT caps are excellent from 0.001uF to 1uF.  There are good reasons for using a 1uF MKTs as the 2 x 1uF NP required in a tubescreamer.

cheers
Title: Another stupid question about caps
Post by: Tony Forestiere on June 09, 2004, 09:07:16 PM
Thanks RDV. To quote somebody..."Make it big, then smash it with a hammer!"

Thanks :wink:
Title: Another stupid question about caps
Post by: RDV on June 09, 2004, 11:34:45 PM
I've got some MKT box type caps for cheap, but the .22uF are kinda large cause they're 100v. I've got some .68 & 1uF that are the nice small 63v.

RDV
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