META - Passive Components

META - Passive Components

This is a meta-thread, made to allow you to keep track of the posts concerning this single issue. All should be contained in this first post - which is re-edited regularily. Everyone is welcome to reply with comments and pointers to things they consider relevant. This will be copy/pasted into the first post, if the meta-keeper finds it relevant. (We deeply dislike censorship, but here it seems necessary for the sake of overview). On a regular basis, a moderator will delete all posts but this first one, and bump the thread to the top.

Resistors:

Forum Links:
www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=9035
High 1/f noise in SM resistors

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=14572
Question regarding the law curves of pots

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=15650
Low noise surface mount resistors?

External Links:
www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/carbon_comp/carboncomp.htm -- Using the Carbon Comp Resistor for Magic Mojo.


Capacitors:

Forum Links:
www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=2287
Capacitor Brand Voodoo - Let's clear the air

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=7239
Wima Caps - Identification by Case Colour

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=7736
Low value caps in PSU - why electrolytic? why not film?

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=11838
Ceramic caps -modern vs old

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=14167
Bipolar Electrolytics in Phantom power lines?

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=15901
Which is better, Bipolar or biased unidirectional caps?

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=17887
Bob Pease-What's All This C-R Stuff, Anyhow? (Coupling Caps)

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=18332
New Panasonic Audio caps at Farnell.

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=20715
polarized vs nonpolar caps in circuit design

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=25123
Substituting tantalum capacitors

www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=25790
Cap (Physical) Size..

External Links:
www.cde.com/catalogs/AEappGUIDE.pdf -- good reading on electrolytic caps.

http://waltjung.org/PDFs/Picking_Capacitors_1.pdf -- Picking capacitors by W. Jung and R. Marsh, part I.

http://waltjung.org/PDFs/Picking_Capacitors_2.pdf -- Picking capacitors by W. Jung and R. Marsh, part II.

http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps.html -- The Sound of Capacitors - Capacitor Linearity.

http://sound.westhost.com/articles/capacitors.htm

http://my.execpc.com/~endlr/index.html -- a very detailed description of capacitors.

http://fnt-www.ss.titech.ac.jp/~hajime/uec/distortion/cap/


Inductors:

Forum Links:

External Links:
www.diygallery.de/DIYsites/inductor.html -- simple inductor DIY.

www.arielfx.com/inductor_guide/guide.htm

Pssst, EW+WW cap-sound articles here.

(Home > User galleries > clintrubber > cap-sound)

Stay tuned, uploading is ongoing right now.
All six articles will be there by the end of the day.

As a slight favour to EW+WW I've added a password to the zip-files.
If you're interested enough in this subject it'll be easy:
it's the first name of the author of these articles (in lowercase).


Thank you Mr. Cyril Bateman for writing these articles! :thumb:


Enjoy!

Peter

Long-needed update done.

Samuel

EDN-article: Know your ceramic capacitor - pt1

http://www.edn.com/contents/images/6594098.pdf

Bye,

Peter