Capacitor for snuffing interference to GPS antenna

Tommi Kärkkäinen tommi.karkkainen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 17:00:05 CEST 2008


Tim Schmidt kirjoitti:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Jim Colton <jimcolt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.westfloridacomponents.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MON001&Category_Code=MonolithicCapacitors-Chip-SurfaceMount&Store_Code=wfc
> 
> Looks like that's 10uF (micro Farad), not 10pF (pico Farad) as
> recommended by OpenMoko.

Also, it's physically too big. That's a 1206 package, the recommended 
cap is 0402.

I'm sorry but I must say that the fact that you had to ask this suggests 
that you might not have the experience required to solder the capacitor. 
The 0402 package *is* very small.


Tommi




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