"Scott Dorsey"
Phil Allison

** Tantalums are *very* prone to fail dead short if subjected to a
sudden self discharge or reverse polarity of even a few volts.
Accidental
shorts from pins 2 or 3 to ground will inevitably happen with phantom
powered
mic inputs.

This is the case with dry slug types only, not with the wet slug ones.

** Kindly supply a reference to a supplier of the latter - with pulse
current specs.

Kemet makes 'em. Look for the mil-spec types.


** US $30 each and still no pulse current specs !!!


** Aluminium is not tantalum.

BTW The price for a 47 uF, 25 volt Sanyo SC ( ie solid aluminium) is
ridiculous.

Maybe. The question is how long it lasts.


** Not at all.


On typical pro audio gear, you may see a piece of equipment recapped three
or four times over a 30-year lifespan.


** Not on the planet most people inhabit. Must be some idiot Yank idea to
re-cap everything - the guitar amp loonies are always on about it as some
sort of panacea.





.............. Phil