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Post by treguiers on Feb 27, 2010 11:57:15 GMT -5
Hi guys, I realize it been a while, but there's been stuff happening I hope you are all well....Anyway, on the original guitar site at a section on modding a tele it said:
"All capacitors are film type. Do not use electrolytic or ceramic disk capacitors."
Now i realize that electrolytic caps are polarised, but why not ceramic?
Words of wisdom will be greatly welcomed
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Post by D2o on Feb 27, 2010 12:38:15 GMT -5
Now i realize that electrolytic caps are polarised, but why not ceramic? Words of wisdom will be greatly welcomed Tre, I think you can use ceramic or myriad other capacitors which are not polarized. Some folks adhere to the tradition of using Sprague and feeling good about it, and others adhere to - all things being equal - "a cap is a cap". Having said that, I have not used a ceramic cap in a guitar - although I have removed ceramic cap from a guitar. You could easily jerry rig a test, if you are so inclined. Cheers, D2o
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Post by newey on Feb 27, 2010 14:23:21 GMT -5
A couple of years ago, ChrisK and I had a discussion somewhere about this. The gist of it was "a cap is a cap". Different values provide differing amounts of capacitance, but there are not different types of capacitance.
That said, Chris advised staying away from ceramic caps, because most of these aren't built to very tight specs, there was more variance than he was willing to accept. He advised that he used the poly film caps, the "green chiclet" style.
I had been using ceramic ones up to that point, but I switched on that advice. The polys are cheap, too, so not a big deal to switch to those.
There is no point to paying more for "vintage style" barrel caps unless one is restoring something vintagish.
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Post by treguiers on Mar 1, 2010 20:18:31 GMT -5
As always, informative and helpful. thanks guys
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