22 Sep
2014
22 Sep
'14
10:46 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:50:11 +0000
From: Chris Pye <pye at mactec.com.au>
Tantalum capacitors are a type of electrolytic, and
are usually polarised
(I?ve never seen one that isn?t).
They usually burn up pretty quickly if they are the wrong way around.
Chris
----- Reply: -----
True enough, but there were sort-of non-polarized tantalum caps; IBM used
them on many of their boards.
They had three leads with the two outside leads internally connected
together, so it didn't matter which way around you inserted them.
m