yes its 1/10farad @ 5.5v
There are several capacitor types with small footprints and high capacity.
Panasonic makes a line of 'Gold' capacitors that look like standard radial
electrolytic capacitors but are rated up around 1.0 - 4.7 Farads. Check
your digikey catalog.
-----Original Message-----
From: Fitzpatrick, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2000 2:17 AM
Subject: RE: Powering a device from the Palm III - knew I missed somethi
>Are you sure you mean .1 farad? Generally a digital bypass cap would be
>somewhere around .1 micro farad. I don't keep up on passive technology,
but
>a 5 volt electrolytic .1 farad cap would need to be about the size of a
>paint can. Actually, I'm not sure if it could be built. In not up on the
>latest materials and manufacturing tolerances.
>
>Regards,
>-jjf
>
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>From: Chris Faherty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 5:45 PM
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>Subject: Re: Powering a device from the Palm III - knew I missed somethi
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>
>On 11-May-2000 Jose Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> 1000 uF is quite big (bad news), even for a low voltage (10V?) capacitor.
>> But you get the idea of the tradeoff between voltage drop and capacitor
>> value.
>
>Just use one of those 5.5V memory capacitors -- like the one in the Palm.
>At
>1 Farad they are still fairly small. The one in the Palm is .1 Farad.
>
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