Anyone who’s worked with older tube-based equipment will be familiar with the type of vintage electrolytic capacitor which integrated several capacitors into one can. Long obsolete, they can be ...
1975 saw the emergence of polymer tantalum electrolytic capacitors with much higher conductivity conductive polymers replacing the manganese dioxide leading to lower ESR. NEC released their ...
Doug Brown Brown wanted to call attention to this because many computer restoration hobbyist replace old electrolytic capacitors with tantalum capacitors, which “are not quite as forgiving when ...