Re: LM4040-5.0

From: Spehro Pefhany (speffSNIP_at_interlogDOTyou.knowwhat)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:33:51 -0500

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:09:02 +1300, the renowned Terry Given
<my_name@ieee.org> wrote:

>Robert Baer wrote:
>>
>> Electrolytics are traditionally poor on HF bypass - which degrades
>> over time.

It was presumably a brand-new capacitor.

>and lets not forget if he bought a shitty electrolytic, it could easily
>have 30+ Ohms ESR.
<snip>

So it forms a voltage divider with the 1K- that still doesn't leave
enough voltage to do damage to a LM4040 through an almost 1/2M
resistor.

Either the resistors were all breaking over or the schematic was not
as presented in some way.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany 

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