I need a cap that works (maintains its value reasonably) all the way down to potentially 70mV (I know, I know). Since electrolytics won't do this, I was wondering if tantalums would? If not how bad are they? Thanks!
I need a cap that works (maintains its value reasonably) all the way down to potentially 70mV (I know, I know). Since electrolytics won't do this, I was wondering if tantalums would? If not how bad are they? Thanks!
Just use tantalums if the capacitance is available, the voltage you are using is 50% or less than the rated voltage, and it's reasonably priced. What frequency did you need it at?
+/- 50% tolerance would be fine I think since this is only a filter cap. Frequency is in the tens of kHz. Value needs to be a few hundred uF and it has to be small. The value and size kills everything else I think. I'm trying to find a way to do this with a reasonable bias voltage on the cap but haven't come up with one yet. If I do then aluminum electrolytics will do fine I think. I will have a bias voltage of at least 1 and maybe as much as 3.3 or 5 volts hopefully.