[hpsdr] Tiny Tantalums

[Bill Tracey]

Good deal.  Ah the joys of trying to install surface mount parts in the 
near vicinity of tall interfering thru holes parts ... went thru that on 
some of Tony's early SoftRocks.  These days he tries to keep all the surf 
mount stuff on one side and the thru hole on the other.   Probably too late 
in the cycle to try and do that for Atlas and not worth the hassle -- just 
put it together in the right order and all is well.

Cheers,

Bill


At 12:17 AM 4/27/2006, Christopher T. Day wrote:
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>So, the 10uF 16V 3216 case ‘A’ tantalum capacitors arrived today. They fit 
>on the existing pads just fine. However, I think I would rather strongly 
>recommend against installing them _after_ all the connectors are in place 
>– J especially if you’re repairing a pulled ground pad at the same time. 
>No shorts and the ohm meter kicks down on each voltage at J20 => there’s 
>some sort of large new capacitance on all the lines. LEDs still light and 
>nothing explodes – I think I now have a fully complete Atlas board!
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>             Chris – AE6VK



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