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Subject:ARRRGGGHHH Re: Tantalum capacitors to stop blinking temp LED
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:10:30 -0400

At 05:38 PM 9/28/2009, Jim Felder wrote:
>I recently asked in a post about curing the blinking light syndrome
>which was the proper capacitor, and someone--sorry, don't remember,
>maybe David B.--said it was a tantalum 22uF 16v or better.

Gentlemen, we're mixing two subjects.  The 22uF is to damp the output
of the AFM.

The cap for the temp gauge is smaller, I'm sure.  I rather suspect
10uF, but I'll have to look inside one to be sure.

Sorry for the confusion!

David