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From: jeffw@midas.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: I really ***HATE*** electrolytic capacitors
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Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 13:14:42 EDT
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In article <1520@crash.CTS.COM> bblue@crash.CTS.COM (Bill Blue) writes:
[After a man with a lot of good sense wrote:]
>>                                                         Yes, the mylar
>>and polypropylene capacitors have many superior characteristics, but
>>they are not 100% across-the-board better.  It will, in some measure,
>>depend on where they are in what circuit.
>
>You *don't* want inductance or any kind of leakage in any of these
>applications.  

Uh, sorry to break it to you, but *all* capacitors have series inductance,
series resistance (frequency dependent, to boot), and leakage. Some just have
more or less than others.

					Jeff Winslow