Re:An alternative to solid tantalum capacitors
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:47AM
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Interesting article, it reads like they are trying to rehabilitate the tantalum capacitor market.
Back when NetApp was got a deal to provide filers for IBM to re-label the word came from IBM that all Tantalum capacitors had to be designed out of the system. There was an interesting project in engineering to purge the designs of all tantalum capacitors. IBM's reasoning was that they had been the source of fires as I recall.
As a result I find myself always hesitating to use one (even in silly one-offs) and other engineers I've met have similar habits.
Back when NetApp was got a deal to provide filers for IBM to re-label the word came from IBM that all Tantalum capacitors had to be designed out of the system. There was an interesting project in engineering to purge the designs of all tantalum capacitors. IBM's reasoning was that they had been the source of fires as I recall.
As a result I find myself always hesitating to use one (even in silly one-offs) and other engineers I've met have similar habits.