On Sep 19, 2007, at 1:34 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> Tantalums will work. Just make sure you get "surge rated" parts. > > Hmmm... how would I know? That's not one of the checkboxes on the > digikey search engine.
Sometimes catalog searches don't tell all. Kemet does have a "surge-robust" family, the T495 series. Under "tantalums" (http://www.kemet.com/kemet/web/homepage/ kechome.nsf/weben/products#sur-tan) look for "Surge robust" parts: http://www.kemet.com/kemet/web/homepage/kechome.nsf/weben/ 5CC0F4F059FD0E92CA2570A500160921/$file/F3102_T495.pdf DigiKey search: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll? lang=en&site=US&keywords=Kemet+Tantalum+T495&x=0&y=0 Good luck, -a _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user