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		sketerpot on Dec 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Capacitor Plague In some cases you can use ceramic capacitors instead of electrolytic ones. I've done this exactly because I don't trust electrolytic capacitors to be anything more than big and cheap.

ladyada on Dec 16, 2009 [–]

for a PC switching power converters, such as in this article?

sooo...where are you buying these mystical 2200uF ceramic caps? :)

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