Eeyore
February 10th 09, 09:00 PM
Soundhaspriority wrote:
> For a year or so, a new "organic solid electrolytic" has been used in high
> quality motherboards, such as those by Asus, because of markedly superior
> lifetime.
LIFETIME ! AT HIGH RIPPLE CURRENT. That's the ONLY reason.
> I am wondering if these are showing up in audio equipment, for example, for
> phantom power blocking.
That would depend on leakage current.
> A more reliable cap would prevent cascading failures.
Coupling caps carry almost no current and the concept of cascading failures due
to cap failure died about 40 years ago.
Graham
> For a year or so, a new "organic solid electrolytic" has been used in high
> quality motherboards, such as those by Asus, because of markedly superior
> lifetime.
LIFETIME ! AT HIGH RIPPLE CURRENT. That's the ONLY reason.
> I am wondering if these are showing up in audio equipment, for example, for
> phantom power blocking.
That would depend on leakage current.
> A more reliable cap would prevent cascading failures.
Coupling caps carry almost no current and the concept of cascading failures due
to cap failure died about 40 years ago.
Graham