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Re:An alternative to solid tantalum capacitors by jacquesm on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:09AM (#13985781)
A good reason not to use tantalum caps is that 10 years down the line or so they seem to transform into automatic firestarters.

But if you aren't able to correctly install parts with any polarity then the only parts that you might be able to use are resistors, coils and capacitors without polarity (which tend to be low capacity), which would make for rather boring designs.

Ceramic caps are usually very low capacity, tantalum and electrolytic caps (much) higher.

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Re:An alternative to solid tantalum capacitors by Arizhel on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:47AM (#13986707)
>Ceramic caps are usually very low capacity, tantalum and electrolytic caps (much) higher.

30+ years ago, this was true. Not anymore.

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Re:An alternative to solid tantalum capacitors by jacquesm on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @06:24PM (#13991193)
Show me where to buy a 1000 uF 50V ceramic cap for a reasonable price.
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Re:An alternative to solid tantalum capacitors by Arizhel on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:31PM (#13992642)
That's a stupid demand. You said "very low capacity". You can get MLCC caps in the ones and tens of microfarads easily and cheaply now, which isn't "very low". "Very low" is picofarads. Ceramics advanced from that level ages ago.
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